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From: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@marliere.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:43:05 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] coresight: constify the struct device_type usage
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Message-Id: <20240219-device_cleanup-coresight-v1-1-4a8a0b816183@marliere.net>
To: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>, 
 Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>, James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>, 
 Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.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
coresight_dev_type variable to be a constant structure 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/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h  | 2 +-
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h
index eb365236f9a9..ca3362cbdb70 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
 
 extern struct mutex coresight_mutex;
-extern struct device_type coresight_dev_type[];
+extern const struct device_type coresight_dev_type[];
 
 /*
  * Coresight management registers (0xf00-0xfcc)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c
index f9444e2cb1d9..1e67cc7758d7 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ static struct attribute *coresight_source_attrs[] = {
 };
 ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(coresight_source);
 
-struct device_type coresight_dev_type[] = {
+const struct device_type coresight_dev_type[] = {
 	[CORESIGHT_DEV_TYPE_SINK] = {
 		.name = "sink",
 		.groups = coresight_sink_groups,

---
base-commit: c099fdd218a0fedfe87e0b88d2ba0667eab3b3c8
change-id: 20240219-device_cleanup-coresight-00ba00fd5f21

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