[PATCH] uml: mmapper - remove just added but wrong "const" attribute

When enabling the mmapper driver I got warnings because this "const"
miscdevice structure is passed to function as non-const pointer; unlike struct
tty_operations, however, I verified that misc_{de,}register _do_ modify their
parameter, so this const attribute must be removed.

Since the purpose of the change was to guarantee that no lock was needed, add
a comment to prove this differently.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/mmapper_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/mmapper_kern.c
index 9a3b5da..df3516e 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/um/drivers/mmapper_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/mmapper_kern.c
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ static const struct file_operations mmapper_fops = {
        .release        = mmapper_release,
 };
 
-static const struct miscdevice mmapper_dev = {
+/* No locking needed - only used (and modified) by below initcall and exitcall. */
+static struct miscdevice mmapper_dev = {
        .minor          = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
        .name           = "mmapper",
        .fops           = &mmapper_fops