attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/netdevice.h> work with const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.
File size before: text data bss dec hex filename 11800 368 0 12168 2f88 drivers/net/can/janz-ican3.o File size After adding 'const': text data bss dec hex filename 11864 304 0 12168 2f88 drivers/net/can/janz-ican3.o Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com> --- Changes in v2: Added cover later. drivers/net/can/janz-ican3.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/janz-ican3.c b/drivers/net/can/janz-ican3.c index 2ba1a81..12a53c8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/janz-ican3.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/janz-ican3.c @@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(termination, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, ican3_sysfs_show_term, NULL, }; -static struct attribute_group ican3_sysfs_attr_group = { +static const struct attribute_group ican3_sysfs_attr_group = { .attrs = ican3_sysfs_attrs, }; -- 1.9.1