Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263824AbUFBSxC (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:53:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263843AbUFBSxC (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:53:02 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:39577 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263824AbUFBSwO (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:52:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:52:05 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Matt Mackall Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, suparna@in.ibm.com, linux-aio@kvack.org Subject: Re: [1/2] use const in time.h unit conversion functions Message-ID: <20040602185205.GX21007@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Matt Mackall , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, suparna@in.ibm.com, linux-aio@kvack.org References: <20040601021539.413a7ad7.akpm@osdl.org> <20040602012429.GV2093@holomorphy.com> <20040602184335.GC5414@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040602184335.GC5414@waste.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 16 On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:43:35PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > This is the second const-correctness patch I've seen in a couple days, > and I'd like to point out that while it's a noble cause, retrofitting > const decls onto interfaces is notorious for causing ripple effects in > APIs. There's a point to this one. A warning got tripped when const stuff was passed to it in patch #2, hence this as a preparatory cleanup. -- wli - 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/