x86/mce: Make mce_chrdev_ops 'static const'
Arjan would like to make struct file_operations const, but mce-inject directly writes to the mce_chrdev_ops to install its write handler. In an ideal world mce-inject would have its own character device, but we have a sizable legacy of test scripts that hardwire "/dev/mcelog", so it would be painful to switch to a separate device now. Instead, this patch switches to a stub function in the mce code, with a registration helper that mce-inject can call when it is loaded. Note that this would also allow for a sane process to allow mce-inject to be unloaded again (with an unregister function, and appropriate module_{get,put}() calls), but that is left for potential future patches. Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4eb2e1971326651a3b@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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