The commit commit f991de53a8ab ("thermal: make device_register's type
argument const") changed APIs, but only when CONFIG_THERMAL enabled case.

This patch is partial from https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/14/631 which
tries to address the same concern,

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/driver-api/thermal/sysfs-api.rst | 4 ++--
 include/linux/thermal.h                        | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/sysfs-api.rst 
b/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/sysfs-api.rst
index fab2c9b36d08..0ef337417922 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/sysfs-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/sysfs-api.rst
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ temperature) and throttle appropriate devices.
     ::
 
        struct thermal_zone_device
-       *thermal_zone_device_register(char *type,
+       *thermal_zone_device_register(const char *type,
                                      int trips, int mask, void *devdata,
                                      struct thermal_zone_device_ops *ops,
                                      const struct thermal_zone_params *tzp,
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ temperature) and throttle appropriate devices.
     ::
 
        struct thermal_cooling_device
-       *thermal_cooling_device_register(char *name,
+       *thermal_cooling_device_register(const char *name,
                        void *devdata, struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *)
 
     This interface function adds a new thermal cooling device 
(fan/processor/...)
diff --git a/include/linux/thermal.h b/include/linux/thermal.h
index e45659c75920..ee235a29294e 100644
--- a/include/linux/thermal.h
+++ b/include/linux/thermal.h
@@ -501,12 +501,12 @@ static inline void thermal_zone_device_update(struct 
thermal_zone_device *tz,
 static inline void thermal_zone_set_trips(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
 { }
 static inline struct thermal_cooling_device *
-thermal_cooling_device_register(char *type, void *devdata,
+thermal_cooling_device_register(const char *type, void *devdata,
        const struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *ops)
 { return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); }
 static inline struct thermal_cooling_device *
-thermal_of_cooling_device_register(struct device_node *np,
-       char *type, void *devdata, const struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *ops)
+thermal_of_cooling_device_register(struct device_node *np, const char *type,
+       void *devdata, const struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *ops)
 { return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); }
 static inline struct thermal_cooling_device *
 devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register(struct device *dev,
-- 
2.23.0.700.g56cf767bdb-goog

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