Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] dm: lookup devices by path with name_to_dev_t

[Mike Snitzer <snitzer redhat com>]

On Mon, May 24 2010 at 12:35pm -0400,
Will Drewry <wad chromium org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Alasdair G Kergon <agk redhat com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 09:44:07AM -0500, Will Drewry wrote:
> >> fwiw, the only reason for the copy was because |path| is a
> >> const in the function but not when passed to name_to_dev_t.
> >> I wasn't sure what the preferred practice was so I just duped
> >> the data needed.
> >
> > Well check that it is treated as 'const' and send a separate patch to
> > the maintainer to add const, perhaps?  If it isn't const (why would
> > that be?), then yes we'd need to copy it.
> 
> I'll cross-check the code again and send a patch out if it looks like
> it is const-safe.

Also, it would see that name_to_dev_t is EXPORT_SYMBOL?

Mike