linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] watchdog_info separation and constify

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Message-ID: <8bd0f97a1001191352n4968bebep2342912c571595fa@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:52:21 -0500
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] watchdog_info separation and constify

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 16:42, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 22:17 +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
>> -static struct watchdog_info at32_wdt_info = {
>> +static const struct watchdog_info at32_wdt_info = {
>
> It'd be good to use a consistent structure name:
>
> static const struct watchdog_info ident = {
>        etc...
> }

i'd agree (obviously i'm partial to the "xxx_wdt_info" form), but i'd
worry about this after the watchdog implementations are finally
unified ... might be less code needing standardization at that point
-mike
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