[PATCH] constify tty flip buffer handling

Add a couple of 'const' qualifiers to the TTY flip buffer APIs, where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
git-mirror · Mar 25, 2006 · 1aef821 · 1aef821
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diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ int tty_buffer_request_room(struct tty_struct *tty, size_t size)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_buffer_request_room);
 
-int tty_insert_flip_string(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char *chars, size_t size)
+int tty_insert_flip_string(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *chars, size_t size)
 {
 	int copied = 0;
 	do {
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ int tty_insert_flip_string(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char *chars, size_t
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_insert_flip_string);
 
-int tty_insert_flip_string_flags(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char *chars, char *flags, size_t size)
+int tty_insert_flip_string_flags(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *chars, const char *flags, size_t size)
 {
 	int copied = 0;
 	do {

diff --git a/include/linux/tty_flip.h b/include/linux/tty_flip.h
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 #define _LINUX_TTY_FLIP_H
 
 extern int tty_buffer_request_room(struct tty_struct *tty, size_t size);
-extern int tty_insert_flip_string(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char *chars, size_t size);
-extern int tty_insert_flip_string_flags(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char *chars, char *flags, size_t size);
+extern int tty_insert_flip_string(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *chars, size_t size);
+extern int tty_insert_flip_string_flags(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *chars, const char *flags, size_t size);
 extern int tty_prepare_flip_string(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char **chars, size_t size);
 extern int tty_prepare_flip_string_flags(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char **chars, char **flags, size_t size);