[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: pxa: Make static string arrays 'const 'char * const []'

Robert Jarzmik robert.jarzmik at free.fr
Sun Nov 13 11:12:14 CET 2016


Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de> writes:

> const char * const [] is the preferred type for static string arrays since
> this states explicitly that the individual entries are not going to be
> changed. Due to limitations in the ASoC API it was not possible to use it
> for enum text arrays. Commit 87023ff74 ('ASoC: Declare const properly for
> enum texts') changed this, but most drivers still use 'const char
> * []' as the type for their enum text arrays.
>
> Change these occurrences of 'static * const char * []' to 'static const
> char * const []'.
>
> The conversion was done automatically using the following coccinelle semantic
> patch:
> // <smpl>
> @disable optional_qualifier@
> identifier s;
> @@
>  static
> -const char *
> +const char * const
>  s[] = ...;
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de>

Hi,

Could you amend your commit message so that checkpatch doesn't complain anymore
? This being done, looks good to me.

Cheers.

--
Robert


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