On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. thanks, will -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel