Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262168AbUJZHkG (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 03:40:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262171AbUJZHjW (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 03:39:22 -0400 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.238]:24592 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262168AbUJZHiP (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 03:38:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:38:06 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] make buffer head argument of buffer_##name "const" Message-ID: <20041026043806.A6073@almesberger.net> References: <20041026033241.B7983@almesberger.net> <20041026002342.5fb15ab3.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041026002342.5fb15ab3.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:23:42AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 723 Lines: 18 Andrew Morton wrote: > OK, but why? Does it generate better code or something? I wouldn't expect this to change the resulting code. It's just so that one can feed it a "const" pointer, which allows other functions to use "const", etc. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina werner@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ - 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/