[PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode
Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the
ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do
stuff" with it.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 680d913..ef355bc 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@
struct mutex i_mutex;
struct rw_semaphore i_alloc_sem;
struct inode_operations *i_op;
- struct file_operations *i_fop; /* former ->i_op->default_file_ops */
+ const struct file_operations *i_fop; /* former ->i_op->default_file_ops */
struct super_block *i_sb;
struct file_lock *i_flock;
struct address_space *i_mapping;
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@
} f_u;
struct dentry *f_dentry;
struct vfsmount *f_vfsmnt;
- struct file_operations *f_op;
+ const struct file_operations *f_op;
atomic_t f_count;
unsigned int f_flags;
mode_t f_mode;
@@ -1414,7 +1414,7 @@
extern int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *, unsigned, unsigned, const char *);
extern int register_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned, const char *);
extern int register_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *,
- struct file_operations *);
+ const struct file_operations *);
extern int unregister_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *);
extern void unregister_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned);
extern int chrdev_open(struct inode *, struct file *);