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From: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@marliere.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:36:35 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] peci: constify the struct device_type usage
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To: Iwona Winiarska <iwona.winiarska@intel.com>
Cc: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, 
 "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@marliere.net>

Since commit aed65af1cc2f ("drivers: make device_type const"), the driver
core can properly handle constant struct device_type. Move the
peci_controller_type and peci_device_type variables to be constant
structures as well, placing it into read-only memory which can not be
modified at runtime.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@marliere.net>
---
 drivers/peci/core.c     | 2 +-
 drivers/peci/device.c   | 2 +-
 drivers/peci/internal.h | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/peci/core.c b/drivers/peci/core.c
index 0f83a9c6093b..ab22d7d1948f 100644
--- a/drivers/peci/core.c
+++ b/drivers/peci/core.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ static void peci_controller_dev_release(struct device *dev)
 	kfree(controller);
 }
 
-struct device_type peci_controller_type = {
+const struct device_type peci_controller_type = {
 	.release	= peci_controller_dev_release,
 };
 
diff --git a/drivers/peci/device.c b/drivers/peci/device.c
index e6b0bffb14f4..ee01f03c29b7 100644
--- a/drivers/peci/device.c
+++ b/drivers/peci/device.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static void peci_device_release(struct device *dev)
 	kfree(device);
 }
 
-struct device_type peci_device_type = {
+const struct device_type peci_device_type = {
 	.groups		= peci_device_groups,
 	.release	= peci_device_release,
 };
diff --git a/drivers/peci/internal.h b/drivers/peci/internal.h
index 9d75ea54504c..fddae86bf13c 100644
--- a/drivers/peci/internal.h
+++ b/drivers/peci/internal.h
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ struct peci_device_id {
 	u8 model;
 };
 
-extern struct device_type peci_device_type;
+extern const struct device_type peci_device_type;
 extern const struct attribute_group *peci_device_groups[];
 
 int peci_device_create(struct peci_controller *controller, u8 addr);
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ void peci_driver_unregister(struct peci_driver *driver);
 #define module_peci_driver(__peci_driver) \
 	module_driver(__peci_driver, peci_driver_register, peci_driver_unregister)
 
-extern struct device_type peci_controller_type;
+extern const struct device_type peci_controller_type;
 
 int peci_controller_scan_devices(struct peci_controller *controller);
 

---
base-commit: b401b621758e46812da61fa58a67c3fd8d91de0d
change-id: 20240219-device_cleanup-peci-a4f87c77703a

Best regards,
-- 
Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@marliere.net>