linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/of: Constify device_node->name and ->path_component

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Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:42:26 +0000
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/of: Constify device_node->name and ->path_component_name

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:33 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> You're making other changes here, such as the kstrdup() stuff,
> seperate that into another patch.

It's part of the same change. The original code was allocating a
buffer, saving the pointer in the name field and then modifying it.
Making the code to a kstrdup() gets rid of modifying the const buffer.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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