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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 07:54:55 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] include/linux/pci.h: Make struct pci_driver.name const
 char *
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On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:38:04 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> As far as I can tell, name is never modified.
> 
> This would allow names to be assigned
> from variables in non-writable sections.
> 
> static const foo[] = "bar";
> 
> struct pci_driver baz = {
> 	.name = foo;
> };
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> ---

I already sent same patch to Jesse