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>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/dmi.h b/include/linux/dmi.h
index b8ac7b01c45e..00fc7a9c35ec 100644
--- a/include/linux/dmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/dmi.h
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ struct dmi_strmatch {
 };
 
 struct dmi_system_id {
-	int (*callback)(struct dmi_system_id *);
+	int (*callback)(const struct dmi_system_id *);
 	const char *ident;
 	struct dmi_strmatch matches[4];
 	void *driver_data;
@@ -71,22 +71,22 @@ struct dmi_device {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DMI
 
-extern int dmi_check_system(struct dmi_system_id *list);
-extern char * dmi_get_system_info(int field);
-extern struct dmi_device * dmi_find_device(int type, const char *name,
-	struct dmi_device *from);
+extern int dmi_check_system(const struct dmi_system_id *list);
+extern const char * dmi_get_system_info(int field);
+extern const struct dmi_device * dmi_find_device(int type, const char *name,
+	const struct dmi_device *from);
 extern void dmi_scan_machine(void);
 extern int dmi_get_year(int field);
-extern int dmi_name_in_vendors(char *str);
+extern int dmi_name_in_vendors(const char *str);
 
 #else
 
-static inline int dmi_check_system(struct dmi_system_id *list) { return 0; }
-static inline char * dmi_get_system_info(int field) { return NULL; }
-static inline struct dmi_device * dmi_find_device(int type, const char *name,
-	struct dmi_device *from) { return NULL; }
+static inline int dmi_check_system(const struct dmi_system_id *list) { return 0; }
+static inline const char * dmi_get_system_info(int field) { return NULL; }
+static inline const struct dmi_device * dmi_find_device(int type, const char *name,
+	const struct dmi_device *from) { return NULL; }
 static inline int dmi_get_year(int year) { return 0; }
-static inline int dmi_name_in_vendors(char *s) { return 0; }
+static inline int dmi_name_in_vendors(const char *s) { return 0; }
 
 #endif