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| author | Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> | 2020-05-13 22:43:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-05-15 14:53:19 +0200 |
| commit | 23cbedf812ff7c7751582928e32d953d84c1c821 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b055d22cf349acc2b1c311a06fc4fea4f7239bb /Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst | |
| parent | 0f1c9688a194d22bb81953bd85bd18b0115fd17f (diff) | |
tty/sysrq: constify the sysrq API
The user is not supposed to thinker with the underlying sysrq_key_op.
Make that explicit by adding a handful of const notations.
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200513214351.2138580-2-emil.l.velikov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst index a46209f4636c..e6424d8c5846 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst @@ -231,13 +231,13 @@ prints help, and C) an action_msg string, that will print right before your handler is called. Your handler must conform to the prototype in 'sysrq.h'. After the ``sysrq_key_op`` is created, you can call the kernel function -``register_sysrq_key(int key, struct sysrq_key_op *op_p);`` this will +``register_sysrq_key(int key, const struct sysrq_key_op *op_p);`` this will register the operation pointed to by ``op_p`` at table key 'key', if that slot in the table is blank. At module unload time, you must call -the function ``unregister_sysrq_key(int key, struct sysrq_key_op *op_p)``, which -will remove the key op pointed to by 'op_p' from the key 'key', if and only if -it is currently registered in that slot. This is in case the slot has been -overwritten since you registered it. +the function ``unregister_sysrq_key(int key, const struct sysrq_key_op *op_p)``, +which will remove the key op pointed to by 'op_p' from the key 'key', if and +only if it is currently registered in that slot. This is in case the slot has +been overwritten since you registered it. The Magic SysRQ system works by registering key operations against a key op lookup table, which is defined in 'drivers/tty/sysrq.c'. This key table has |