Re: [PATCH 1/2] PNP: constify driver name

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Mar 17 2020 - 13:46:28 EST


On 3/6/2020 8:53 AM, Corentin Labbe wrote:
struct pnp_driver has name set as char* instead of const char* like platform_driver, pci_driver, usb_driver, etc...
Let's unify a bit by setting name as const char*.
Furthermore, all users of this structures set name from already const
data.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/pnp.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/pnp.h b/include/linux/pnp.h
index 3b12fd28af78..b18dca67253d 100644
--- a/include/linux/pnp.h
+++ b/include/linux/pnp.h
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ struct pnp_id {
};
struct pnp_driver {
- char *name;
+ const char *name;
const struct pnp_device_id *id_table;
unsigned int flags;
int (*probe) (struct pnp_dev *dev, const struct pnp_device_id *dev_id);

Applied as 5.7 material along with the [2/2].

BTW, please CC PNP patches to linux-acpi in the future.