[PATCH] cxl: make cxl_class constant

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

Now that the driver core allows for struct class to be in read-only
memory, we should make all 'class' structures declared at build time
placing them into read-only memory, instead of having to be dynamically
allocated at runtime.

Cc: Frederic Barrat <fbar...@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Donnellan <a...@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/misc/cxl/file.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
index 144d1f2d78ce..012e11b959bc 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@
 
 static dev_t cxl_dev;
 
-static struct class *cxl_class;
-
 static int __afu_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool master)
 {
        struct cxl *adapter;
@@ -559,7 +557,10 @@ static char *cxl_devnode(const struct device *dev, umode_t 
*mode)
        return kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "cxl/%s", dev_name(dev));
 }
 
-extern struct class *cxl_class;
+static const struct class cxl_class = {
+       .name =         "cxl",
+       .devnode =      cxl_devnode,
+};
 
 static int cxl_add_chardev(struct cxl_afu *afu, dev_t devt, struct cdev *cdev,
                           struct device **chardev, char *postfix, char *desc,
@@ -575,7 +576,7 @@ static int cxl_add_chardev(struct cxl_afu *afu, dev_t devt, 
struct cdev *cdev,
                return rc;
        }
 
-       dev = device_create(cxl_class, &afu->dev, devt, afu,
+       dev = device_create(&cxl_class, &afu->dev, devt, afu,
                        "afu%i.%i%s", afu->adapter->adapter_num, afu->slice, 
postfix);
        if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
                rc = PTR_ERR(dev);
@@ -633,14 +634,14 @@ void cxl_chardev_afu_remove(struct cxl_afu *afu)
 
 int cxl_register_afu(struct cxl_afu *afu)
 {
-       afu->dev.class = cxl_class;
+       afu->dev.class = &cxl_class;
 
        return device_register(&afu->dev);
 }
 
 int cxl_register_adapter(struct cxl *adapter)
 {
-       adapter->dev.class = cxl_class;
+       adapter->dev.class = &cxl_class;
 
        /*
         * Future: When we support dynamically reprogramming the PSL & AFU we
@@ -678,13 +679,11 @@ int __init cxl_file_init(void)
 
        pr_devel("CXL device allocated, MAJOR %i\n", MAJOR(cxl_dev));
 
-       cxl_class = class_create("cxl");
-       if (IS_ERR(cxl_class)) {
+       rc = class_register(&cxl_class);
+       if (rc) {
                pr_err("Unable to create CXL class\n");
-               rc = PTR_ERR(cxl_class);
                goto err;
        }
-       cxl_class->devnode = cxl_devnode;
 
        return 0;
 
@@ -696,5 +695,5 @@ int __init cxl_file_init(void)
 void cxl_file_exit(void)
 {
        unregister_chrdev_region(cxl_dev, CXL_NUM_MINORS);
-       class_destroy(cxl_class);
+       class_unregister(&cxl_class);
 }
-- 
2.42.0