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From: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@marliere.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:50:37 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] parport: constify the struct device_type usage
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To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: 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
parport_device_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/parport/share.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/parport/share.c b/drivers/parport/share.c
index 49c74ded8a53..33159392d70c 100644
--- a/drivers/parport/share.c
+++ b/drivers/parport/share.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static struct parport_operations dead_ops = {
 	.owner		= NULL,
 };
 
-static struct device_type parport_device_type = {
+static const struct device_type parport_device_type = {
 	.name = "parport",
 };
 

---
base-commit: b401b621758e46812da61fa58a67c3fd8d91de0d
change-id: 20240219-device_cleanup-parport-ba048a859198

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