On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 02:29:03AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It all started when code like this:
>
> static const char driver_name = "blah";
> static struct device_driver {
> .name = driver_name,
> };
>
> would give me compiler warning about removing constness because driver
> core has "name" fields drclared simply as "char *". I think it is a good
> idea to have them as "const char *" since whoever accesses them should
> not try to change them.
>
> 01-hotplug-use-kobject-name.patch
> - kobject_hotplug should use kobject_name() instead of
> accessing kobj->name directly since for objects with
> long names it can contain garbage.
>
> 02-sysfs-link-constness.patch
> - make sysfs_{create|remove}_link to take const char * name.
>
> 03-kobject-const-name.patch
> - make kobject's name const char * since users should not
> attempt to change it (except by calling kobject_rename).
>
> 04-kset-name-const.patch
> - change name() method in kset_hiotplug_ops return const char *
> since users shoudl not try to modify returned data.
>
> 05-driver-const-name.patch
> - change driver's, bus's, class's and platform device's names
> to be const char * so one can use const char *drv_name = "asdfg";
> when initializing structures.
> Also kill couple of whitespaces.
>
> Please consider for inclusion.
Very nice, I've added all 5 patches to my tree, and are queued up for
after 2.6.12 is out.
thanks,
greg k-h
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
