Re: [PATCH] Make clocksource name const

Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-02T19:08:21Z

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> Has this patch been rejected?

No, I think it just got lost. Will pick it up.

> 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);
>