linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kprobes: Make kprobe.symbol

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Message-ID: <20070315091501.GA21823@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:15:01 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hch@...radead.org, Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@...ibm.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kprobes: Make kprobe.symbol_name const

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:05:47AM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>
> 
> Kprobes doesn't scribble the kprobe.symbol_name field. Its only set by
> the module when registering the probe. Modules that exercise good
> hygiene using the "const" qualifier will see warnings...
> 
> 	warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> 
> Make struct kprobe.symbol_name const char *

Ok.

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