Re: [PATCH 3/3] firmware/dmi_scan: Constify strings

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jul 09 2013 - 11:58:23 EST


On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 17:43 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Add const to all DMI string pointers where this is possible. This
> fixes a checkpatch warning.

That's a nice little improvement.

> +++ linux-3.10-rc0/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c 2013-05-04 11:20:52.808187924 +0200
[]
> @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static void __init dmi_save_oem_strings_
> struct dmi_device *dev;
>
> for (i = 1; i <= count; i++) {
> - char *devname = dmi_string(dm, i);
> + const char *devname = dmi_string(dm, i);
>
> if (devname == dmi_empty_string)

btw: that last test sure looks like it would be
better written as
if (strcmp(devname, dmi_empty_string) == 0)


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