netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: stmmac: xgmac: use const char arrays for string constants

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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:10:30 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: stmmac: xgmac: use const char arrays for
 string constants

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:52:01 +0100 you wrote:
> Jiri Slaby advises me that the preferred mechanism for declaring
> string constants is static char arrays, so use that here.
> 
> This mostly reverts
> commit 1692b9775e74 ("net: stmmac: xgmac: use #define for string constants")
> 
> That commit was a fix for
> commit 46eba193d04f ("net: stmmac: xgmac: fix handling of DPP safety error for DMA channels").
> The fix being replacing const char * with #defines in order to address
> compilation failures observed on GCC 6 through 10.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] net: stmmac: xgmac: use const char arrays for string constants
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/36fb51479e3c

You are awesome, thank you!
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