From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752770AbXCOJPH (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:15:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752773AbXCOJPH (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:15:07 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:51671 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752770AbXCOJPF (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:15:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:15:01 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: lkml , akpm@linux-foundation.org, hch@infradead.org, Prasanna S Panchamukhi , Jim Keniston Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kprobes: Make kprobe.symbol_name const Message-ID: <20070315091501.GA21823@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , lkml , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Prasanna S Panchamukhi , Jim Keniston References: <20070315043547.GA14236@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070315043547.GA14236@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:05:47AM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli > > Kprobes doesn't scribble the kprobe.symbol_name field. Its only set by > the module when registering the probe. Modules that exercise good > hygiene using the "const" qualifier will see warnings... > > warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type > > Make struct kprobe.symbol_name const char * Ok.