linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: pi433: Fix string form declaration

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Date:   Sat, 10 Sep 2022 07:36:52 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Burak Ozdemir <bozdemir@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: pi433: Fix string form declaration

On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 10:50:57PM +0000, Burak Ozdemir wrote:
> I have been  analyzing todo tasks from `Kernel Janitors Projects` and saw
> the following task
> 
> From: Jeff Garzik
> 
> 1) The string form
>         [const] char *foo = "blah";
> creates two variables in the final assembly output, a static string, and a
> char pointer to the static string. The alternate string form
>         [const] char foo[] = "blah";
> is better because it declares a single variable.
> 
> That's why I changed that char * to static const[].

I'm sorry, but I have no context here at all for what this is in
response to.

Remember, some of us get hundreds of changes each day to review, and we
have the short-term memory of a squirrel.  Always include proper context
in an email message so that we know what is going on.

thanks,

greg k-h