drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals
Three main sets of changes:
1) dmi_get_system_info() return value should have been marked const,
since callers should not be changing that data.
2) const-ify DMI internals, since DMI firmware tables should,
whenever possible, be marked const to ensure we never ever write to
that data area.
3) const-ify DMI API, to enable marking tables const where possible
in low-level drivers.
And if we're really lucky, this might enable some additional
optimizations on the part of the compiler.
The bulk of the changes are #2 and #3, which are interrelated. #1 could
have been a separate patch, but it was so small compared to the others,
it was easier to roll it into this changeset.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index dd441ff..7901d5f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -1965,10 +1965,10 @@
u8 slave_addr;
};
-static int __devinit decode_dmi(struct dmi_header *dm,
+static int __devinit decode_dmi(const struct dmi_header *dm,
struct dmi_ipmi_data *dmi)
{
- u8 *data = (u8 *)dm;
+ const u8 *data = (const u8 *)dm;
unsigned long base_addr;
u8 reg_spacing;
u8 len = dm->length;
@@ -2091,13 +2091,14 @@
static void __devinit dmi_find_bmc(void)
{
- struct dmi_device *dev = NULL;
+ const struct dmi_device *dev = NULL;
struct dmi_ipmi_data data;
int rv;
while ((dev = dmi_find_device(DMI_DEV_TYPE_IPMI, NULL, dev))) {
memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data));
- rv = decode_dmi((struct dmi_header *) dev->device_data, &data);
+ rv = decode_dmi((const struct dmi_header *) dev->device_data,
+ &data);
if (!rv)
try_init_dmi(&data);
}