Re: [PATCH 01/14] do_mounts: constify name_to_dev_t parameter

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu,  9 May 2013 16:42:57 -0400 Joern Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx> 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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