Re: [PATCH 01/19] Make clocksource name const

["Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:25:54PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> As nothing should be writing to the clocksource name string, make the
> clocksource name pointer const.  Build-tested on ARM Versatile Express.
> 
> Cc: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@unipv.it>
> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
> Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
> Cc: Erik Gilling <konkers@android.com>
> Cc: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
> Cc: Imre Kaloz <kaloz@openwrt.org>
> Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
> Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@wantstofly.org>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
> Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
> Cc: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Acked-by: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>

> ---
>  include/linux/clocksource.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/clocksource.h b/include/linux/clocksource.h
> index c37b21a..94c1f38 100644
> --- a/include/linux/clocksource.h
> +++ b/include/linux/clocksource.h
> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ struct clocksource {
>  	/*
>  	 * First part of structure is read mostly
>  	 */
> -	char *name;
> +	const char *name;
>  	struct list_head list;
>  	int rating;
>  	cycle_t (*read)(struct clocksource *cs);
> -- 
> 1.7.4.4
> 
>