linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] usb/hcd: Send a uevent signaling that the host controller had died

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Message-ID: <CAHQZ30B3+gzuw0=tofwW3yUwJ_MkN6GWPgVg0Qq_6S2tJHkcFQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:10:47 -0600
From:   Raul Rangel <rrangel@...omium.org>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        oneukum@...e.com, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
        zwisler@...omium.org,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>,
        Raul Rangel <rrangel@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] usb/hcd: Send a uevent signaling that the host
 controller had died

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 04:39:23PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
>
> This sounds like a golden opportunity!  Submit a separate patch making
> the parameter to kobject_uevent_env be const (actually const char *
> const []), then submit this patch on top of that one.
So there are other parts of the code base that dynamically create their
array values. So by making the function take const, it breaks :(
>
> Alan Stern
>