driver core: device_rename's new_name can be const

The new_name argument to device_rename() can be
const as kobject_rename's new_name argument is.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index f8e72724dd4b78c0d7048f552a5be29bb189956b..d1b2c9adc2718ebcf8979d19b0c065803020836e 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1599,7 +1599,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_destroy);
  * on the same device to ensure that new_name is valid and
  * won't conflict with other devices.
  */
-int device_rename(struct device *dev, char *new_name)
+int device_rename(struct device *dev, const char *new_name)
 {
        char *old_class_name = NULL;
        char *new_class_name = NULL;

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 0ca24e93304fc1dcc3f410950dbba5562337563a..516fecacf27b424f29b95c9ee4921b7fd5805dc5 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ extern int device_for_each_child(struct device *dev, void *data,
                     int (*fn)(struct device *dev, void *data));
 extern struct device *device_find_child(struct device *dev, void *data,
                                int (*match)(struct device *dev, void *data));
-extern int device_rename(struct device *dev, char *new_name);
+extern int device_rename(struct device *dev, const char *new_name);
 extern int device_move(struct device *dev, struct device *new_parent,
                       enum dpm_order dpm_order);
 extern const char *device_get_devnode(struct device *dev,