Re: [PATCH 1/3] vfs: constify path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Sep 15 2017 - 14:37:27 EST


On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch constifies the path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path.

I've applied this upstream independently of everything else, because
it's obviously the right thing to do (as the sound_firmware.h part of
the patch shows, never mind the whole "we're just passing the pathname
to filp_open() which takes a const char" thing).

lINUS