[PATCH v1 01/18] thermal: core: Change governor name to const char pointer

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno]

Il 01/02/24 19:37, Rafael J. Wysocki ha scritto:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:13 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
> <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com> wrote:
>>
>> All users are already assigning a const char * to the `governor_name`
>> member of struct thermal_zone_params and to the `name` member of
>> struct thermal_governor.
>> Even if users are technically wrong, it just makes more sense to change
>> this member to be a const char pointer instead of doing the other way
>> around.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael at kernel.org>
> 
> or I can pick it up right away if you want me to do that.
> 

I appreciate having less patches to carry over with new series versions.

Whatever you can take, please feel free to pick directly :-)

Thanks,
Angelo

>> ---
>>   include/linux/thermal.h | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/thermal.h b/include/linux/thermal.h
>> index b7a3deb372fd..65d8f92a9a0d 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/thermal.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/thermal.h
>> @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ struct thermal_zone_device {
>>    * @governor_list:     node in thermal_governor_list (in thermal_core.c)
>>    */
>>   struct thermal_governor {
>> -       char name[THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH];
>> +       const char *name;
>>          int (*bind_to_tz)(struct thermal_zone_device *tz);
>>          void (*unbind_from_tz)(struct thermal_zone_device *tz);
>>          int (*throttle)(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
>> @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ struct thermal_governor {
>>
>>   /* Structure to define Thermal Zone parameters */
>>   struct thermal_zone_params {
>> -       char governor_name[THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH];
>> +       const char *governor_name;
>>
>>          /*
>>           * a boolean to indicate if the thermal to hwmon sysfs interface
>> --