linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions

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Message-ID: <1444953586.22921.0.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:59:46 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@...el.com>
Cc:	LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>,
	"Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
	"Wysocki, Rafael J" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	"lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...ica.org" <devel@...ica.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Box, David E" <david.e.box@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions

On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 19:32 +0000, Moore, Robert wrote:
> if you started to use "const" for some methods you usually forced to
> use this in most of your code. But the time spent for maintaining
> (typing, recompiling when some const is missing, etc.) of
> const-correctness in code seems greater than for fixing of possible
> (very rare) problems caused by not using of const-correctness at all

c is not c++.

"seems" is a dubious statement.

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