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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/of: Constify device_node->name and ->path_component_name
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:34:16 +0000
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:46:04 +1100, Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> wrote:
> > Neither of these should ever be changed once set. Make them const and
> > fix up the users that try to modify it in-place. In one case
> > kmalloc+memcpy is replaced with kstrdup() to avoid modifying the string.
> > 
> > Build tested with defconfigs on ARM, PowerPC, Sparc, MIPS, x86 among
> > others.
> 
> Grant,
> 
> This breaks powerpc chroma_defconfig in next-20121127 with:
> 
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/scom.c:160:17: error: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror]
> 
> The following fixes it.  The change is to generic code, so I'm not sure
> it's the right fix as it may break other configs/archs.

That is rather risky. Post it as a patch to core code, but in the mean
time I'll patch the powerpc scom code.

g.