From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:09:37 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: driver core: constify group arrays arguments in driver_add_groups and driver_remove_g... 
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ecab063e9821b23c82907d7889302c22f197e1e;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

driver core: constify group arrays arguments in driver_add_groups and driver_remove_groups

Constify the groups array argument in driver_add_groups and
driver_remove_groups. This allows to pass constant arrays as
arguments.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/21a1e5f1-c6a0-4f6f-aa86-1e6abd25f9c6@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
index 483b99b4fa3d7..a5b7abc10ff02 100644
--- a/drivers/base/base.h
+++ b/drivers/base/base.h
@@ -194,8 +194,10 @@ static inline void dev_sync_state(struct device *dev)
 		dev->driver->sync_state(dev);
 }
 
-int driver_add_groups(const struct device_driver *drv, const struct attribute_group **groups);
-void driver_remove_groups(const struct device_driver *drv, const struct attribute_group **groups);
+int driver_add_groups(const struct device_driver *drv,
+		      const struct attribute_group *const *groups);
+void driver_remove_groups(const struct device_driver *drv,
+			  const struct attribute_group *const *groups);
 void device_driver_detach(struct device *dev);
 
 static inline void device_set_driver(struct device *dev, const struct device_driver *drv)
diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index 8ab010ddf709a..c5ebf1fdad758 100644
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -203,13 +203,13 @@ void driver_remove_file(const struct device_driver *drv,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_remove_file);
 
 int driver_add_groups(const struct device_driver *drv,
-		      const struct attribute_group **groups)
+		      const struct attribute_group *const *groups)
 {
 	return sysfs_create_groups(&drv->p->kobj, groups);
 }
 
 void driver_remove_groups(const struct device_driver *drv,
-			  const struct attribute_group **groups)
+			  const struct attribute_group *const *groups)
 {
 	sysfs_remove_groups(&drv->p->kobj, groups);
 }