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driver core: have match() callback in struct bus_type take a const *
In the match() callback, the struct device_driver * should not be
changed, so change the function callback to be a const *. This is one
step of many towards making the driver core safe to have struct
device_driver in read-only memory.
Because the match() callback is in all busses, all busses are modified
to handle this properly. This does entail switching some container_of()
calls to container_of_const() to properly handle the constant *.
For some busses, like PCI and USB and HV, the const * is cast away in
the match callback as those busses do want to modify those structures at
this point in time (they have a local lock in the driver structure.)
That will have to be changed in the future if they wish to have their
struct device * in read-only-memory.
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Sumit Garg <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024070136-wrongdoer-busily-01e8@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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