From: Rolf Eike Beer The arguments are really const. Mark them const to allow these functions being called from places where the arguments are const without getting useless compiler warnings. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/time.h | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/time.h~add-const-for-timespecval_compare-arguments include/linux/time.h --- a/include/linux/time.h~add-const-for-timespecval_compare-arguments +++ a/include/linux/time.h @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static inline int timespec_equal(struct * lhs == rhs: return 0 * lhs > rhs: return >0 */ -static inline int timespec_compare(struct timespec *lhs, struct timespec *rhs) +static inline int timespec_compare(const struct timespec *lhs, const struct timespec *rhs) { if (lhs->tv_sec < rhs->tv_sec) return -1; @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static inline int timespec_compare(struc return lhs->tv_nsec - rhs->tv_nsec; } -static inline int timeval_compare(struct timeval *lhs, struct timeval *rhs) +static inline int timeval_compare(const struct timeval *lhs, const struct timeval *rhs) { if (lhs->tv_sec < rhs->tv_sec) return -1; _