linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] spi: Change modalias from a pointer to a character array

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Message-Id: <200805211703.25822.david-b@pacbell.net>
Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 17:03:25 -0700
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	spi-devel-general@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] spi: Change modalias from a pointer to a character array

On Friday 09 May 2008, Grant Likely wrote:
> This patch changes modalias from a 'const char *' to a fixed char array.
> By copying the modalias string instead of referencing it, the dependency
> on the spi_board_info structure is eliminated and an outside caller does
> not need to maintain a separate spi_board_info allocation for each device.

Looks fine to me.

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