This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: Driver Core: constify the name passed to platform_device_register_simple
to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is driver-core-constify-the-name-passed-to-platform_device_register_simple.patch This tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/ >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jan 18 17:28:36 2008 From: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:24:53 +1100 Subject: Driver Core: constify the name passed to platform_device_register_simple To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This name is just passed to platform_device_alloc which has its parameter declared const. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/base/platform.c | 2 +- include/linux/platform_device.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/base/platform.c +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_unregi * the Linux driver model. In particular, when such drivers are built * as modules, they can't be "hotplugged". */ -struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(char *name, int id, +struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(const char *name, int id, struct resource *res, unsigned int num) { struct platform_device *pdev; --- a/include/linux/platform_device.h +++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ extern struct resource *platform_get_res extern int platform_get_irq_byname(struct platform_device *, char *); extern int platform_add_devices(struct platform_device **, int); -extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(char *, int id, +extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(const char *, int id, struct resource *, unsigned int); extern struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc(const char *name, int id); Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are bad/battery-class-driver.patch driver/driver-core-constify-the-name-passed-to-platform_device_register_simple.patch -- 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/