Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (tmp421) make const array 'names' static

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Oct 09 2018 - 20:36:29 EST


On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 01:11:57PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The const array 'names' can be made static, saves populating it on
> the stack and will make it read-only.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to hwmon-next.

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
> drivers/hwmon/tmp421.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/tmp421.c b/drivers/hwmon/tmp421.c
> index e36399213324..8844c9565d2a 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/tmp421.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/tmp421.c
> @@ -226,8 +226,10 @@ static int tmp421_detect(struct i2c_client *client,
> {
> enum chips kind;
> struct i2c_adapter *adapter = client->adapter;
> - const char * const names[] = { "TMP421", "TMP422", "TMP423",
> - "TMP441", "TMP442" };
> + static const char * const names[] = {
> + "TMP421", "TMP422", "TMP423",
> + "TMP441", "TMP442"
> + };
> int addr = client->addr;
> u8 reg;
>