Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757065Ab3EVUsP (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 16:48:15 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:41694 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756683Ab3EVUsO (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 16:48:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:48:12 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Joern Engel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Borislav Petkov , Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] do_mounts: constify name_to_dev_t parameter Message-Id: <20130522134812.40924cb34eaea1588b756a14@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1368132193-25817-2-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org> References: <1368132193-25817-1-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org> <1368132193-25817-2-git-send-email-joern@logfs.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1175 Lines: 34 On Thu, 9 May 2013 16:42:57 -0400 Joern Engel wrote: > --- a/include/linux/mount.h > +++ b/include/linux/mount.h > @@ -74,6 +74,6 @@ extern struct vfsmount *vfs_kern_mount(struct file_system_type *type, > extern void mnt_set_expiry(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct list_head *expiry_list); > extern void mark_mounts_for_expiry(struct list_head *mounts); > > -extern dev_t name_to_dev_t(char *name); > +extern dev_t name_to_dev_t(const char *name); > > #endif /* _LINUX_MOUNT_H */ > diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c > index 1d1b634..da96f85 100644 > --- a/init/do_mounts.c > +++ b/init/do_mounts.c > @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ done: > * bangs. > */ > > -dev_t name_to_dev_t(char *name) > +dev_t name_to_dev_t(const char *name) > { > char s[32]; > char *p; A changelog would be nice. There are 1.1 billion places in the kernel where we could make such a change - why was this one made? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/