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>

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
index 6116b93..b787e47 100644 (file)
--- 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>
 

diff --git a/include/linux/uio_driver.h b/include/linux/uio_driver.h
index 20be327..a0bb6bd 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/uio_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio_driver.h
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ struct uio_device;
  */
 struct uio_info {
        struct uio_device       *uio_dev;
-       char                    *name;
-       char                    *version;
+       const char              *name;
+       const char              *version;
        struct uio_mem          mem[MAX_UIO_MAPS];
        struct uio_port         port[MAX_UIO_PORT_REGIONS];
        long                    irq;