driver core: bus: mark the struct bus_type for sysfs callbacks as constant

2023-03-23T12:20:40Z

struct bus_type should never be modified in a sysfs callback as there is nothing in the structure to modify, and frankly, the structure is almost never used in a sysfs callback, so mark it as constant to allow struct bus_type to be moved to read-only memory. Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Bounine Cc: Alison Schofield Cc: Ben Widawsky Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Hannes Reinecke Cc: Harald Freudenberger Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Hu Haowen Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Laurentiu Tudor Cc: Matt Porter Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Stuart Yoder Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Yanteng Si Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov # rbd Acked-by: Ira Weiny # cxl Reviewed-by: Alex Shi Acked-by: Iwona Winiarska Acked-by: Dan Williams Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas # pci Acked-by: Wei Liu Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen # scsi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-23-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book

2019-07-15T14:03:02Z

The audience for the Kernel driver-model is clearly Kernel hackers. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher # ice driver changes

kernel/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/bus.rst, branch linux-rolling-stable

driver core: bus: mark the struct bus_type for sysfs callbacks as constant

docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book