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

From	"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	RE: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions
Date	2015-10-16 05:40 +0200
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If you don't like the quote, just stick with my first assessment.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Perches [mailto:joe@perches.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 5:00 PM
> To: Moore, Robert
> Cc: LABBE Corentin; Zheng, Lv; Wysocki, Rafael J; lenb@kernel.org; linux-
> acpi@vger.kernel.org; devel@acpica.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Box,
> David E
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some
> functions
> 
> 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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