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Subject[PATCH] [TRIVIAL] register_chrdev_region, alloc_chrdev_region const char
A couple chrdev routines take a constant string and should be declared
with const char *

diff -Nru a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
--- a/fs/char_dev.c 2004-10-08 10:44:52 -07:00
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c 2004-10-08 10:44:52 -07:00
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
return cd;
}

-int register_chrdev_region(dev_t from, unsigned count, char *name)
+int register_chrdev_region(dev_t from, unsigned count, const char *name)
{
struct char_device_struct *cd;
dev_t to = from + count;
@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@
return PTR_ERR(cd);
}

-int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *dev, unsigned baseminor, unsigned count, char *name)
+int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *dev, unsigned baseminor, unsigned count,
+ const char *name)
{
struct char_device_struct *cd;
cd = __register_chrdev_region(0, baseminor, count, name);
diff -Nru a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
--- a/include/linux/fs.h 2004-10-08 10:44:52 -07:00
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h 2004-10-08 10:44:52 -07:00
@@ -1269,8 +1269,8 @@
extern void bd_release(struct block_device *);

/* fs/char_dev.c */
-extern int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *, unsigned, unsigned, char *);
-extern int register_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned, char *);
+extern int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *, unsigned, unsigned, const char *);
+extern int register_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned, const char *);
extern int register_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *,
struct file_operations *);
extern int unregister_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *);
-
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