# \[PATCH\] backlight: Declare backlight\_types\[\] const

- From: Bart Van Assche \<bvanassche@acm.org\>
- Date: 2011-09-10 18:13:11 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2011/09/3762566
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2011/09/3762566/t.md

```text
Since backlight_types[] isn't modified, let's declare it const. That
was probably the intention of the author of commit
bb7ca747f8d6243b3943c5b133048652020f4a50, via which the "const char
const *" construct was introduced. The duplicate const was detected
by sparse.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <redacted>
Cc: Richard Purdie <redacted>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
index 80d292f..7363c1b 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #include <asm/backlight.h>
 #endif
 
-static const char const *backlight_types[] = {
+static const char *const backlight_types[] = {
 	[BACKLIGHT_RAW] = "raw",
 	[BACKLIGHT_PLATFORM] = "platform",
 	[BACKLIGHT_FIRMWARE] = "firmware",
-- 
1.7.3.4

```