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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:15:18 +0200 From: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@...il.com> To: linux-leds@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>, Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...onical.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: add led_trigger_rename function Hi Kurt, On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 03:55:35PM +0200, Kurt Van Dijck wrote: > > > > This also implies that "name" in "struct led_trigger" is not const > > anymore. > IMHO, this is wrong. This forces all other led_triggers > to put their name in non-const storage. I had a second check on the patch and now I see your point. > I see 2 options here: > * let 'name' be a 'const char *', and do a typecast. > This works as long as led_trigger_rename is called only on led_triggers > with non-const 'name' storage. > * put the storage of trigger name inside struct led_trigger conditionally > (like can_dev does with their echo_skb), and when calling > led_trigger_rename(), test if 'name' points to that storage. > > Maybe there are other possibilities. Modifying other driver would involve some useless kstrdup on constant strigs or another unsafe casting, so I prefer to cast here in that case. I'll send a v2 with the first solution you proposed, but I don't see a really clean implementation here. Any better idea? Fabio -- Fabio Baltieri -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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