From: Johannes Berg on
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(a)intel.com>
---
I have a patch that I would like to push into the wireless tree for .37
that relies on this to not generate a compiler warning, it would be nice
if this could get into .36 but I don't know if that's possible now.

drivers/base/core.c | 2 +-
include/linux/device.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/base/core.c 2010-08-05 17:34:14.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/base/core.c 2010-08-05 17:34:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -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;
--- wireless-testing.orig/include/linux/device.h 2010-08-05 17:34:01.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/include/linux/device.h 2010-08-05 17:34:09.000000000 +0200
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ extern int device_for_each_child(struct
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,


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