Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] clk: make strings in parent name arrays const | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:55:19 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 19:40 +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote: > The clk functions and structs declare the parent_name arrays as > 'const char **parent_names' which means the parent name strings > are const, but the array itself is not. Use > 'const char * const * parent_names' instead which also makes > the array const. This allows us to put the parent_name arrays into > the __initconst section.
If these are pointer entries are stored, care needs to be taken to make sure that the memory isn't discarded or needed post init.
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