Re: [PATCH v1 01/18] thermal: core: Change governor name to const char pointer

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:13 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> All users are already assigning a const char * to the `governor_name`
> member of struct thermal_zone_params and to the `name` member of
> struct thermal_governor.
> Even if users are technically wrong, it just makes more sense to change
> this member to be a const char pointer instead of doing the other way
> around.
>
> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>

or I can pick it up right away if you want me to do that.

> ---
>  include/linux/thermal.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/thermal.h b/include/linux/thermal.h
> index b7a3deb372fd..65d8f92a9a0d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/thermal.h
> +++ b/include/linux/thermal.h
> @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ struct thermal_zone_device {
>   * @governor_list:     node in thermal_governor_list (in thermal_core.c)
>   */
>  struct thermal_governor {
> -       char name[THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH];
> +       const char *name;
>         int (*bind_to_tz)(struct thermal_zone_device *tz);
>         void (*unbind_from_tz)(struct thermal_zone_device *tz);
>         int (*throttle)(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
> @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ struct thermal_governor {
>
>  /* Structure to define Thermal Zone parameters */
>  struct thermal_zone_params {
> -       char governor_name[THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH];
> +       const char *governor_name;
>
>         /*
>          * a boolean to indicate if the thermal to hwmon sysfs interface
> --