[PATCH] drivers/of: Constify device_node->name and ->path_component_name

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Thu Nov 15 09:49:38 EST 2012


From: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:42:26 +0000

> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:33 PM, David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
>>
>> You're making other changes here, such as the kstrdup() stuff,
>> seperate that into another patch.
> 
> It's part of the same change. The original code was allocating a
> buffer, saving the pointer in the name field and then modifying it.
> Making the code to a kstrdup() gets rid of modifying the const buffer.

Please mention that in your commit message then, thanks.


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