kfifo: Use "const" definitions

Currently kfifo cannot be used by parts of the kernel that use "const"
properly as kfifo itself does not use const for passed data blocks which
are indeed const.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/include/linux/kfifo.h b/include/linux/kfifo.h
index 29f62e1733ff4e23c61e4f25c75d6e5498e4ab93..ad6bdf5a5970c5fdbceb6b5c440a196b7a620b22 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/kfifo.h
+++ b/include/linux/kfifo.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ extern struct kfifo *kfifo_alloc(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_mask,
                                 spinlock_t *lock);
 extern void kfifo_free(struct kfifo *fifo);
 extern unsigned int __kfifo_put(struct kfifo *fifo,
-                               unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len);
+                               const unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len);
 extern unsigned int __kfifo_get(struct kfifo *fifo,
                                unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len);
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static inline void kfifo_reset(struct kfifo *fifo)
  * bytes copied.
  */
 static inline unsigned int kfifo_put(struct kfifo *fifo,
-                                    unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len)
+                               const unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len)
 {
        unsigned long flags;
        unsigned int ret;

diff --git a/kernel/kfifo.c b/kernel/kfifo.c
index 26539e3228e50f81ca892122a23b6bd1fcf98fe6..3765ff3c1bbe780118d6c04ec6391056dfda8f8a 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/kfifo.c
+++ b/kernel/kfifo.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfifo_free);
  * writer, you don't need extra locking to use these functions.
  */
 unsigned int __kfifo_put(struct kfifo *fifo,
-                        unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len)
+                       const unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int len)
 {
        unsigned int l;