From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joe@perches.com (Joe Perches) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:55:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/6] clk: make strings in parent name arrays const In-Reply-To: <1427737245-4064-2-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> References: <1427737245-4064-1-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> <1427737245-4064-2-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Message-ID: <1427738119.14276.19.camel@perches.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 19:40 +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote: > The clk functions and structs declare the parent_name arrays as > 'const char **parent_names' which means the parent name strings > are const, but the array itself is not. Use > 'const char * const * parent_names' instead which also makes > the array const. This allows us to put the parent_name arrays into > the __initconst section. If these are pointer entries are stored, care needs to be taken to make sure that the memory isn't discarded or needed post init.