The inet6_protocol structure is only passed as the first argument to
inet6_add_protocol or inet6_del_protocol, both of which are declared as
const.  Thus the inet6_protocol structure itself can be const.

Also drop __read_mostly on the newly const structure.

Done with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr>

---
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c
index 88b397c..d2efcd9 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c
@@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ static int l2tp_ip6_recvmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr 
*msg, size_t len,
        .ops            = &l2tp_ip6_ops,
 };
 
-static struct inet6_protocol l2tp_ip6_protocol __read_mostly = {
+static const struct inet6_protocol l2tp_ip6_protocol = {
        .handler        = l2tp_ip6_recv,
 };
 

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