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Wysocki\" <rafael@kernel.org>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,\n Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,\n Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>","Cc":"driver-core@lists.linux.dev,\n Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,\n linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org","References":"<5d0951ec-42c9-453f-9966-ecca593c4153@kernel.org>","Content-Language":"en-US","In-Reply-To":"<5d0951ec-42c9-453f-9966-ecca593c4153@kernel.org>","Content-Type":"text/plain; charset=UTF-8","Content-Transfer-Encoding":"7bit"},"content":"This prepares for making struct device member groups a constant array.\nNo functional change intended.\n\nSigned-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>\n---\n drivers/infiniband/core/device.c | 9 ++++-----\n 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)","diff":"diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c\nindex 1174ab7da62..f967ad534fc 100644\n--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c\n+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c\n@@ -565,15 +565,14 @@ static void rdma_init_coredev(struct ib_core_device *coredev,\n \t */\n \tBUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct ib_device, coredev.dev) !=\n \t\t     offsetof(struct ib_device, dev));\n-\n-\tcoredev->dev.class = &ib_class;\n-\tcoredev->dev.groups = dev->groups;\n-\n \t/*\n \t * Don't expose hw counters outside of the init namespace.\n \t */\n \tif (!is_full_dev && dev->hw_stats_attr_index)\n-\t\tcoredev->dev.groups[dev->hw_stats_attr_index] = NULL;\n+\t\tdev->groups[dev->hw_stats_attr_index] = NULL;\n+\n+\tcoredev->dev.class = &ib_class;\n+\tcoredev->dev.groups = dev->groups;\n \n \tdevice_initialize(&coredev->dev);\n \tcoredev->owner = dev;\n","prefixes":["RFC","01/10"]}