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Message-ID: <20090625143444.4098.35534.stgit@t61.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:34:54 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kfifo: Use "const" definitions
From: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Currently kfifo cannot be used by parts of the kernel that use "const"
properly as kfifo itself does not use const for passed data blocks which
are indeed const.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
---
include/linux/kfifo.h | 4 ++--
kernel/kfifo.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/kfifo.h b/include/linux/kfifo.h
index 29f62e1..ad6bdf5 100644
--- a/include/linux/kfifo.h
+++ b/include/linux/kfifo.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ extern struct kfifo *kfifo_alloc(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_mask,
spinlock_t *lock);
extern void kfifo_free(struct kfifo *fifo);
extern unsigned int __kfifo_put(struct kfifo *fifo,
- unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len);
+ const unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len);
extern unsigned int __kfifo_get(struct kfifo *fifo,
unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len);
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static inline void kfifo_reset(struct kfifo *fifo)
* bytes copied.
*/
static inline unsigned int kfifo_put(struct kfifo *fifo,
- unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len)
+ const unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len)
{
unsigned long flags;
unsigned int ret;
diff --git a/kernel/kfifo.c b/kernel/kfifo.c
index 26539e3..3765ff3 100644
--- a/kernel/kfifo.c
+++ b/kernel/kfifo.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfifo_free);
* writer, you don't need extra locking to use these functions.
*/
unsigned int __kfifo_put(struct kfifo *fifo,
- unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len)
+ const unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len)
{
unsigned int l;
--
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