Declare bin_attribute structures as const as they are only passed as an arguments to the functions device_remove_bin_file and device_create_bin_file. These function arguments are of type const, so bin_attribute structures having this property can be made const too. Done using Coccinelle:
@r1 disable optional_qualifier @ identifier i; position p; @@ static struct bin_attribute i@p = {...}; @ok1@ identifier r1.i; position p,p1; @@ ( device_remove_bin_file(...,&i@p) | device_create_bin_file(..., &i@p1) ) @bad@ position p!={r1.p,ok1.p,ok1.p1}; identifier r1.i; @@ i@p @depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@ identifier r1.i; @@ +const struct bin_attribute i; Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumi...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c index 561fb94..ee5376e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c @@ -3007,14 +3007,14 @@ static ssize_t netxen_sysfs_write_mem(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj, } -static struct bin_attribute bin_attr_crb = { +static const struct bin_attribute bin_attr_crb = { .attr = {.name = "crb", .mode = (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR)}, .size = 0, .read = netxen_sysfs_read_crb, .write = netxen_sysfs_write_crb, }; -static struct bin_attribute bin_attr_mem = { +static const struct bin_attribute bin_attr_mem = { .attr = {.name = "mem", .mode = (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR)}, .size = 0, .read = netxen_sysfs_read_mem, @@ -3143,7 +3143,7 @@ static ssize_t netxen_sysfs_write_mem(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj, } -static struct bin_attribute bin_attr_dimm = { +static const struct bin_attribute bin_attr_dimm = { .attr = { .name = "dimm", .mode = (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR) }, .size = sizeof(struct netxen_dimm_cfg), .read = netxen_sysfs_read_dimm, -- 1.9.1