Greg KH
2005-06-21T01:54:21Z

[PATCH] make driver's name be const char *

Driver core:
change driver's, bus's, class's and platform device's names
to be const char * so one can use
const char *drv_name = "asdfg";
when initializing structures.
Also kill couple of whitespaces.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
commit 8d790d74085833ba2a3e84b5bcd683be4981c29a
tree fe3be944882cb1ec272e4fb6782c6caa404a6187
parent 419cab3fc69588ebe35b845cc3a584ae172463de
author Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:34:05 -0500
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:15:01 -0700

drivers/usb/core/devices.c | 2 +-
include/linux/device.h | 12 ++++++------
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devices.c b/drivers/usb/core/devices.c
--- a/drivers/usb/core/devices.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devices.c
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static char *usb_dump_interface_descript
int setno)
{
const struct usb_interface_descriptor *desc = &intfc->altsetting[setno].desc;
- char *driver_name = "";
+ const char *driver_name = "";

if (start > end)
return start;
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct class_device;
struct class_simple;

struct bus_type {
- char * name;
+ const char * name;

struct subsystem subsys;
struct kset drivers;
@@ -98,17 +98,17 @@ extern int bus_create_file(struct bus_ty
extern void bus_remove_file(struct bus_type *, struct bus_attribute *);

struct device_driver {
- char * name;
+ const char * name;
struct bus_type * bus;

struct completion unloaded;
struct kobject kobj;
struct list_head devices;

- struct module * owner;
+ struct module * owner;

int (*probe) (struct device * dev);
- int (*remove) (struct device * dev);
+ int (*remove) (struct device * dev);
void (*shutdown) (struct device * dev);
int (*suspend) (struct device * dev, pm_message_t state, u32 level);
int (*resume) (struct device * dev, u32 level);
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ extern void driver_remove_file(struct de
* device classes
*/
struct class {
- char * name;
+ const char * name;

struct subsystem subsys;
struct list_head children;
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ extern struct device *device_find(const
/* drivers/base/platform.c */

struct platform_device {
- char * name;
+ const char * name;
u32 id;
struct device dev;
u32 num_resources;