Re: mod_devicetable: Make dmi_strmatch.substr const char *

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

Dne 20.5.2015 v 13:19 Rusty Russell napsal(a):
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
>> On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 16:56 +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
>>> On Tue, 19 May 2015 07:46:58 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 17:07 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>>> changed dmi_strmatch.substr from char * to char[79];
>>>>>
>>>>> Changing it back to const char * would shrink an x86-64
>>>>> defconfig more than 100KB.

As David already pointed out, this breaks modpost. Also, what makes the
dmi tables special? We use character arrays in other tables as well, to
make them self-contained for modpost.


> But it seems the file2alias code was rewritten in 2013 by Andreas Schwab
> <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, and SOB Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, without
> going through me.  Annoying, since they had to hack it because people
> screwed up mod_devicetable.h with arch-dependent layouts :(

Oh, sorry about it.


> I guess that means Michal is the maintainer now, so I've CC'd him.

OK, fine, I can carry modpost patches in kbuid.git. I think I have
merged a few more besides the file2alias rework.

Michal