Re: [PATCH] drivers/of: Constify device_node->name and ->path_component_name

[Grant Likely]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:33 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You're making other changes here, such as the kstrdup() stuff,
> seperate that into another patch.

It's part of the same change. The original code was allocating a
buffer, saving the pointer in the name field and then modifying it.
Making the code to a kstrdup() gets rid of modifying the const buffer.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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