[PATCH v2] drivers/of: Constify device_node->name and ->path_component_name
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Sat Nov 17 04:33:58 EST 2012
From: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:20:25 +0000
> Neither of these should ever be changed once set. Make them const and
> fix up the users that try to modify it in-place. In one case
> kmalloc+memcpy is replaced with kstrdup() to avoid modifying the string.
>
> Build tested with defconfigs on ARM, PowerPC, Sparc, MIPS, x86 among
> others.
>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
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