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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 arrays, allowing to assign constant arrays.\n\nSigned-off-by: Heiner Kallweit \n---\n include/linux/device/class.h | 4 ++--\n 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)","diff":"diff --git a/include/linux/device/class.h b/include/linux/device/class.h\nindex 65880e60c72..2079239a5aa 100644\n--- a/include/linux/device/class.h\n+++ b/include/linux/device/class.h\n@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ struct fwnode_handle;\n struct class {\n \tconst char\t\t*name;\n \n-\tconst struct attribute_group\t**class_groups;\n-\tconst struct attribute_group\t**dev_groups;\n+\tconst struct attribute_group\t*const *class_groups;\n+\tconst struct attribute_group\t*const *dev_groups;\n \n \tint (*dev_uevent)(const struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env);\n \tchar *(*devnode)(const struct device *dev, umode_t *mode);\n","prefixes":["RFC","08/10"]}