[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: core: Constify the name in new kcontrols

[Mark Brown]

We never modify it and this lets us use a const string as the name without
warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
---

I've got some ASoC patches which need this to avoid warnings, if you're
OK with it can I apply it via there please?

 include/sound/control.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/sound/control.h b/include/sound/control.h
index b2796e8..57815f6 100644
--- a/include/sound/control.h
+++ b/include/sound/control.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ struct snd_kcontrol_new {
 	snd_ctl_elem_iface_t iface;	/* interface identifier */
 	unsigned int device;		/* device/client number */
 	unsigned int subdevice;		/* subdevice (substream) number */
-	unsigned char *name;		/* ASCII name of item */
+	const unsigned char *name;	/* ASCII name of item */
 	unsigned int index;		/* index of item */
 	unsigned int access;		/* access rights */
 	unsigned int count;		/* count of same elements */
-- 
1.7.9.rc1