Commit 1ba0ce6f authored by Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso's avatar Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: mmapper - remove just added but wrong "const" attribute

When enabling the mmapper driver I got warnings because this "const"
miscdevice structure is passed to function as non-const pointer; unlike struct
tty_operations, however, I verified that misc_{de,}register _do_ modify their
parameter, so this const attribute must be removed.

Since the purpose of the change was to guarantee that no lock was needed, add
a comment to prove this differently.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent f43e6a5a
......@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ static const struct file_operations mmapper_fops = {
.release = mmapper_release,
};
static const struct miscdevice mmapper_dev = {
/* No locking needed - only used (and modified) by below initcall and exitcall. */
static struct miscdevice mmapper_dev = {
.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
.name = "mmapper",
.fops = &mmapper_fops
......
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