netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] pci: Add helper to search for VPD keywords

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Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:49:11 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
Cc:	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, andy@...yhouse.net,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] pci: Add helper to search for VPD keywords

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 12:40 -0800, Matt Carlson wrote:
> This patch adds the pci_vpd_find_info_keyword() helper function to
> find information field keywords within read-only and read-write large
> resource data type sections.
[...]
> +/**
> + * pci_vpd_find_info_keyword - Locates an information field keyword in the VPD
> + * @buf: Pointer to buffered vpd data
> + * @off: The offset into the buffer at which to begin the search
> + * @len: The length of the buffer area, relative to off, in which to search
> + * @kw: The keyword to search for
> + *
> + * Returns the index where the information field keyword was found or
> + * -ENOENT otherwise.
> + */
> +int pci_vpd_find_info_keyword(u8 *buf, unsigned int off,
> +			      unsigned int len, char *kw);
[...]

The kw pointer should be const-qualified.  The buf pointers could also
be const-qualified though this is less important.

Ben.

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