On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 04:26:37PM +0800, liqiong wrote:
> "char bdi_unknown_nam[]" string form declares a single variable.
> It is better then "char *bdi_unknown_name" which creates two
> variables.
>
Sorry, I do not understand what you are saying here. Creating
two variables means what?
Thanks.
> Signed-off-by: liqiong <[email protected]>
> ---
> mm/backing-dev.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
> index 7176af65b103..4982ccc63536 100644
> --- a/mm/backing-dev.c
> +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info noop_backing_dev_info;
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(noop_backing_dev_info);
>
> static struct class *bdi_class;
> -static const char *bdi_unknown_name = "(unknown)";
> +static const char bdi_unknown_name[] = "(unknown)";
>
> /*
> * bdi_lock protects bdi_tree and updates to bdi_list. bdi_list has RCU
> --
> 2.11.0
>
>