Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 May 2013 13:48:12 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/14] do_mounts: constify name_to_dev_t parameter |
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On Thu, 9 May 2013 16:42:57 -0400 Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> 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?
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