From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: make struct proc_dir_entry::name const
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:07:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231129140705.c1a7faa8f49572f5a50d2416@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d724d33e-7c0d-422b-8d23-3d677cc414fe@p183>
On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:46:57 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Multiply ::name into "mut_name" and "name" which is "const char*".
>
> PDE's name must not be mutated on live PDE, hint modules they should not
> do it.
Do any modules do this? If so, we just broke them. If not, why bother
with this change?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-29 22:07 UTC|newest]
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2023-11-29 9:46 Alexey Dobriyan
2023-11-29 22:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-11-30 6:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
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