Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753268Ab3FDKIE (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 06:08:04 -0400 Received: from hermes.synopsys.com ([198.182.44.81]:50679 "EHLO hermes.synopsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750913Ab3FDKIB (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 06:08:01 -0400 Message-ID: <51ADBB1D.9060805@synopsys.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 15:32:05 +0530 From: Vineet Gupta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Mischa Jonker , Paul Mackerras , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , James Hogan , Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: add const qualifier to perf_pmu_register's 'name' arg References: <1370339148-5566-1-git-send-email-mjonker@synopsys.com> <20130604095801.GM8923@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> In-Reply-To: <20130604095801.GM8923@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.12.197.14] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 631 Lines: 17 On 06/04/2013 03:28 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:45:48AM +0200, Mischa Jonker wrote: >> This allows us to use pdev->name for registering a PMU device. >> IMO the name is not supposed to be changed anyway. >> > Indeed, and thanks! > > PS. WTH is a metag? It's the cpu core from Imagination Tech - their port got merged in 3.9 (along with ARC from Synopsys). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/