From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764058AbYASBjM (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:39:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760449AbYASBjB (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:39:01 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42375 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760376AbYASBjA (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:39:00 -0500 Subject: patch driver-core-constify-the-name-passed-to-platform_device_register_simple.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree To: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:39:24 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20080111172453.81644f8d.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Message-ID: <12007067633743@kroah.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: Driver Core: constify the name passed to platform_device_register_simple to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is driver-core-constify-the-name-passed-to-platform_device_register_simple.patch This tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/ >>From sfr@canb.auug.org.au Fri Jan 18 17:28:36 2008 From: Stephen Rothwell Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:24:53 +1100 Subject: Driver Core: constify the name passed to platform_device_register_simple To: mochel@osdl.org Cc: greg@kroah.com, LKML Message-ID: <20080111172453.81644f8d.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> This name is just passed to platform_device_alloc which has its parameter declared const. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/platform.c | 2 +- include/linux/platform_device.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/base/platform.c +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_unregi * the Linux driver model. In particular, when such drivers are built * as modules, they can't be "hotplugged". */ -struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(char *name, int id, +struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(const char *name, int id, struct resource *res, unsigned int num) { struct platform_device *pdev; --- a/include/linux/platform_device.h +++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ extern struct resource *platform_get_res extern int platform_get_irq_byname(struct platform_device *, char *); extern int platform_add_devices(struct platform_device **, int); -extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(char *, int id, +extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(const char *, int id, struct resource *, unsigned int); extern struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc(const char *name, int id); Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from sfr@canb.auug.org.au are bad/battery-class-driver.patch driver/driver-core-constify-the-name-passed-to-platform_device_register_simple.patch