On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:46:04 +1100, Michael Neuling [off-list ref] wrote:

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Neither of these should ever be changed once set. Make them const and
fix up the users that try to modify it in-place. In one case
kmalloc+memcpy is replaced with kstrdup() to avoid modifying the string.

Build tested with defconfigs on ARM, PowerPC, Sparc, MIPS, x86 among
others.

Grant,

This breaks powerpc chroma_defconfig in next-20121127 with:

arch/powerpc/sysdev/scom.c:160:17: error: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror]

The following fixes it.  The change is to generic code, so I'm not sure
it's the right fix as it may break other configs/archs.

That is rather risky. Post it as a patch to core code, but in the mean
time I'll patch the powerpc scom code.

g.