The pointed string is never modified from within uart_parse_options, so
it should be marked as const in the function prototype.
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 5 +++--
include/linux/serial_core.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
v2: New patch in this series
v3: No change
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index 13bfd5dcffce..95d3770bdb37 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -1954,9 +1954,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uart_parse_earlycon);
* eg: 115200n8r
*/
void
-uart_parse_options(char *options, int *baud, int *parity, int *bits, int *flow)
+uart_parse_options(const char *options, int *baud, int *parity,
+ int *bits, int *flow)
{
- char *s = options;
+ const char *s = options;
*baud = simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 10);
while (*s >= '0' && *s <= '9')
diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h
index 64d892f1e5cd..67f88fb53195 100644
--- a/include/linux/serial_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ struct uart_port *uart_get_console(struct uart_port *ports, int nr,
struct console *c);
int uart_parse_earlycon(char *p, unsigned char *iotype, resource_size_t *addr,
char **options);
-void uart_parse_options(char *options, int *baud, int *parity, int *bits,
+void uart_parse_options(const char *options, int *baud, int *parity, int *bits,
int *flow);
int uart_set_options(struct uart_port *port, struct console *co, int baud,
int parity, int bits, int flow);
--
2.11.0
