linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] memparse(): constify argument

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Message-ID: <20080728131119.GH5515@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:11:20 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] memparse(): constify argument


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

> memparse()'s first argument can be const, so it should be.

i've picked this up into tip/core/lib - if Andrew wants to have the same 
commit ID it can be pulled from there, as per the coordinates below.

I've merged that branch into tip/x86/xen, and i've applied your other 
two dependent changes to tip/x86/xen too.

	Ingo

------------------>

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git core/lib

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1):
      generic, memparse(): constify argument


 include/linux/kernel.h |    2 +-
 lib/cmdline.c          |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index fdbbf72..7889c2f 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ extern int vsscanf(const char *, const char *, va_list)
 
 extern int get_option(char **str, int *pint);
 extern char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints);
-extern unsigned long long memparse(char *ptr, char **retptr);
+extern unsigned long long memparse(const char *ptr, char **retptr);
 
 extern int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr);
 extern int __kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr);
diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c
index 5ba8a94..f5f3ad8 100644
--- a/lib/cmdline.c
+++ b/lib/cmdline.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints)
  *	megabyte, or one gigabyte, respectively.
  */
 
-unsigned long long memparse(char *ptr, char **retptr)
+unsigned long long memparse(const char *ptr, char **retptr)
 {
 	char *endptr;	/* local pointer to end of parsed string */
 
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