cx25821: Remove bad strcpy to read-only char*
authorEzequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:05:26 +0000 (10:05 -0300)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:15:33 +0000 (08:15 -0700)
The strcpy was being used to set the name of the board.  Since the
destination char* was read-only and the name is set statically at
compile time; this was both wrong and redundant.

The type of char* is changed to const char* to prevent future errors.

Reported-by: Radek Masin <radek@masin.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
[ Taking directly due to vacations   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821-core.c
drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821.h

index 83c1aa6b2e6c9a8762065e4c5994c62f033f3fba..f11f6f07e9154cd4d00790031d3da5e63c1ec8d1 100644 (file)
@@ -904,9 +904,6 @@ static int cx25821_dev_setup(struct cx25821_dev *dev)
        list_add_tail(&dev->devlist, &cx25821_devlist);
        mutex_unlock(&cx25821_devlist_mutex);
 
-       strcpy(cx25821_boards[UNKNOWN_BOARD].name, "unknown");
-       strcpy(cx25821_boards[CX25821_BOARD].name, "cx25821");
-
        if (dev->pci->device != 0x8210) {
                pr_info("%s(): Exiting. Incorrect Hardware device = 0x%02x\n",
                        __func__, dev->pci->device);
index b9aa801b00a7b29c01c45334dd14d6c7c61bb978..029f2934a6d88bccdb409becdfd17849b99dff3b 100644 (file)
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ enum port {
 };
 
 struct cx25821_board {
-       char *name;
+       const char *name;
        enum port porta;
        enum port portb;
        enum port portc;