linux-kernel - memparse(), simple_strtoul() prototypes...

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Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0702180804l26d99a01y558bce2ee964d973@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:04:19 +0100
From:	"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: memparse(), simple_strtoul() prototypes...

Hi,

I must miss something...

Looking at these prototypes

unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *cp, char **endp,unsigned int base)
unsigned long long memparse (char *ptr, char **retptr)

I'm really wondering why not all parameters are not all 'const'. None
of these functions modify any pointer containts. And simple_strtoul()
ends up doing sometghing like:

if (endp)
		*endp = (char *)cp;

Could anyone shed some light ?
-- 
Francis
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