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authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2008-12-12 11:44:21 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-01-06 10:44:44 -0800
commitb8ac9fc0e8cda9f9776019c5b0464b0c6d2d4c90 (patch)
treeec16e6a3844396dd67af3f87c915cb272570cc98 /Documentation
parenta2ab3d30005cdce45c2c7e31ad6743ad7975609a (diff)
uio: make uio_info's name and version const
These are only ever assigned constant strings and never modified. This was noticed because Wolfram Sang needed to cast the result of of_get_property() in order to assign it to the name field of a struct uio_info. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
index 6116b93608d..b787e4721c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
@@ -393,12 +393,12 @@ offset = N * getpagesize();
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
-<varname>char *name</varname>: Required. The name of your driver as
+<varname>const char *name</varname>: Required. The name of your driver as
it will appear in sysfs. I recommend using the name of your module for this.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
-<varname>char *version</varname>: Required. This string appears in
+<varname>const char *version</varname>: Required. This string appears in
<filename>/sys/class/uio/uioX/version</filename>.
</para></listitem>