Re: [PATCH] Make clocksource name const

Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-02T14:12:05Z

Has this patch been rejected?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:34:50PM +0000, 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> ---
> 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);