[PATCH trivial] arm64: constify hwcap_str
Ard Biesheuvel
ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Wed Nov 6 11:32:47 EST 2013
Turn hwcap_str from a 'writable array of pointers to const char[]'
to a multidimensional const char[][].
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
This is something I noticed when looking at Steve Capper's hwcaps patch: really
no point in having a writable array of 8-byte pointers in .data keeping track of
these hwcap strings.
arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
index 055cfb8..b6aa6b4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -301,10 +301,10 @@ static int __init topology_init(void)
}
subsys_initcall(topology_init);
-static const char *hwcap_str[] = {
+static const char hwcap_str[][8] = {
"fp",
"asimd",
- NULL
+ ""
};
static int c_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static int c_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
/* dump out the processor features */
seq_puts(m, "Features\t: ");
- for (i = 0; hwcap_str[i]; i++)
+ for (i = 0; hwcap_str[i][0]; i++)
if (elf_hwcap & (1 << i))
seq_printf(m, "%s ", hwcap_str[i]);
--
1.8.3.2
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