Re: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions

From	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions
Date	2015-10-16 02:00 +0200
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On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 19:32 +0000, Moore, Robert wrote:
> if you started to use "const" for some methods you usually forced to
> use this in most of your code. But the time spent for maintaining
> (typing, recompiling when some const is missing, etc.) of
> const-correctness in code seems greater than for fixing of possible
> (very rare) problems caused by not using of const-correctness at all

c is not c++.

"seems" is a dubious statement.

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[PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 21:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2015-10-14 21:50 +0200
  RE: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> - 2015-10-14 23:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-10-15 04:20 +0200
      RE: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> - 2015-10-15 21:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-10-16 02:00 +0200
          RE: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> - 2015-10-16 05:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-10-16 05:50 +0200

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