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/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c
index a39280b..3ed0ae8 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mark_tsc_unstable);
-static int __init dmi_mark_tsc_unstable(struct dmi_system_id *d)
+static int __init dmi_mark_tsc_unstable(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
{
printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s detected: marking TSC unstable.\n",
d->ident);