linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions

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Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2015 03:37:55 +0000
From:	"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@...el.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>,
	"Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
	"Wysocki, Rafael J" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	"lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...ica.org" <devel@...ica.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Box, David E" <david.e.box@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions

If you don't like the quote, just stick with my first assessment.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Perches [mailto:joe@...ches.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 5:00 PM
> To: Moore, Robert
> Cc: LABBE Corentin; Zheng, Lv; Wysocki, Rafael J; lenb@...nel.org; linux-
> acpi@...r.kernel.org; devel@...ica.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; Box,
> David E
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some
> functions
> 
> On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 19:32 +0000, Moore, Robert wrote:
> > if you started to use "const" for some methods you usually forced to
> > use this in most of your code. But the time spent for maintaining
> > (typing, recompiling when some const is missing, etc.) of
> > const-correctness in code seems greater than for fixing of possible
> > (very rare) problems caused by not using of const-correctness at all
> 
> c is not c++.
> 
> "seems" is a dubious statement.

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