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

[Alasdair G Kergon]

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.

Alasdair

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