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authorDmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>2005-04-26 02:32:00 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2005-06-20 15:15:00 -0700
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[PATCH] Make kobject's name be const char *
kobject: make kobject's name const char * since users should not attempt to change it (except by calling kobject_rename). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kobject.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kobject.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index 765d660d3bea..76dc67245c0c 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
extern u64 hotplug_seqnum;
struct kobject {
- char * k_name;
+ const char * k_name;
char name[KOBJ_NAME_LEN];
struct kref kref;
struct list_head entry;
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ struct kobject {
extern int kobject_set_name(struct kobject *, const char *, ...)
__attribute__((format(printf,2,3)));
-static inline char * kobject_name(struct kobject * kobj)
+static inline const char * kobject_name(const struct kobject * kobj)
{
return kobj->k_name;
}
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ extern void kobject_cleanup(struct kobject *);
extern int kobject_add(struct kobject *);
extern void kobject_del(struct kobject *);
-extern int kobject_rename(struct kobject *, char *new_name);
+extern int kobject_rename(struct kobject *, const char *new_name);
extern int kobject_register(struct kobject *);
extern void kobject_unregister(struct kobject *);