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Wysocki\" , Danilo Krummrich ,\n Jason Gunthorpe , Leon Romanovsky ,\n Alexandre Belloni ","Cc":"driver-core@lists.linux.dev,\n Linux Kernel Mailing List ,\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":"Constify the groups array, allowing to assign constant arrays.\n\nSigned-off-by: Heiner Kallweit \n---\n include/linux/device.h | 2 +-\n 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)","diff":"diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h\nindex 48a0444ccc1..bfa2ca603c2 100644\n--- a/include/linux/device.h\n+++ b/include/linux/device.h\n@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ struct device {\n \tstruct list_head\tdevres_head;\n \n \tconst struct class\t*class;\n-\tconst struct attribute_group **groups;\t/* optional groups */\n+\tconst struct attribute_group *const *groups;\t/* optional groups */\n \n \tvoid\t(*release)(struct device *dev);\n \tstruct iommu_group\t*iommu_group;\n","prefixes":["RFC","05/10"]}