From: Jan Engelhardt Change the signature of i_size_read(), IMINOR() and IMAJOR() because they, or the functions they call, will never modify the argument. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/fs.h | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/fs.h~constify-inode-accessors include/linux/fs.h --- a/include/linux/fs.h~constify-inode-accessors +++ a/include/linux/fs.h @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ enum inode_i_mutex_lock_class * cmpxchg8b without the need of the lock prefix). For SMP compiles * and 64bit archs it makes no difference if preempt is enabled or not. */ -static inline loff_t i_size_read(struct inode *inode) +static inline loff_t i_size_read(const struct inode *inode) { #if BITS_PER_LONG==32 && defined(CONFIG_SMP) loff_t i_size; @@ -672,12 +672,12 @@ static inline void i_size_write(struct i #endif } -static inline unsigned iminor(struct inode *inode) +static inline unsigned iminor(const struct inode *inode) { return MINOR(inode->i_rdev); } -static inline unsigned imajor(struct inode *inode) +static inline unsigned imajor(const struct inode *inode) { return MAJOR(inode->i_rdev); } _