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Message-ID: <20120915161518.GA1687@gmail.com>
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
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