From: Thomas Koeller Add a couple of 'const' qualifiers to the TTY flip buffer APIs, where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/char/tty_io.c | 4 ++-- include/linux/tty_flip.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/tty_io.c~constify-tty-flip-buffer-handling drivers/char/tty_io.c --- 25/drivers/char/tty_io.c~constify-tty-flip-buffer-handling Fri Feb 24 14:21:37 2006 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/tty_io.c Fri Feb 24 14:21:37 2006 @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ int tty_buffer_request_room(struct tty_s 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_st 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 -puN include/linux/tty_flip.h~constify-tty-flip-buffer-handling include/linux/tty_flip.h --- 25/include/linux/tty_flip.h~constify-tty-flip-buffer-handling Fri Feb 24 14:21:37 2006 +++ 25-akpm/include/linux/tty_flip.h Fri Feb 24 14:21:37 2006 @@ -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); _