Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: pistachio: Fix initconst confusion

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Thu Jun 23 2022 - 20:42:33 EST


Quoting Jiri Slaby (2022-06-23 01:32:16)
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> A variable pointing to const isn't const itself. It'd have to contain
> "const" keyword after "*" too. Therefore, PNAME() cannot put the strings
> to "rodata". Hence use __initdata instead of __initconst to fix this.
>
> [js] more explanatory commit message.
>
> Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-clk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/clk/pistachio/clk.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/pistachio/clk.h b/drivers/clk/pistachio/clk.h
> index f9c31e3a0e47..742e5fab00c0 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/pistachio/clk.h
> +++ b/drivers/clk/pistachio/clk.h
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct pistachio_mux {
> const char **parents;
> };
>
> -#define PNAME(x) static const char *x[] __initconst
> +#define PNAME(x) static const char *x[] __initdata

Can it be const char * const and left as __initconst?