The patch titled Subject: proc: more "const char *" pointers has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is proc-more-const-char-pointers.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/proc-more-const-char-pointers.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/proc-more-const-char-pointers.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: proc: more "const char *" pointers Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/base.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~proc-more-const-char-pointers fs/proc/base.c --- a/fs/proc/base.c~proc-more-const-char-pointers +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ */ struct pid_entry { - char *name; + const char *name; int len; umode_t mode; const struct inode_operations *iop; @@ -418,8 +418,8 @@ static int proc_oom_score(struct task_st } struct limit_names { - char *name; - char *unit; + const char *name; + const char *unit; }; static const struct limit_names lnames[RLIM_NLIMITS] = { @@ -2056,7 +2056,7 @@ static int show_timer(struct seq_file *m struct k_itimer *timer; struct timers_private *tp = m->private; int notify; - static char *nstr[] = { + static const char * const nstr[] = { [SIGEV_SIGNAL] = "signal", [SIGEV_NONE] = "none", [SIGEV_THREAD] = "thread", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are lib-test-kstrtoxc-use-array_size-instead-of-sizeof-sizeof.patch proc-add-and-remove-proc-entry-create-checks.patch proc-faster-proc-pid-lookup.patch proc-make-proc_subdir_lock-static.patch proc-remove-proc_tty_ldisc-variable.patch proc-remove-proc_tty_ldisc-variable-fix.patch proc-more-const-char-pointers.patch proc-convert-proc-pid-auxv-to-seq_file-interface.patch proc-convert-proc-pid-limits-to-seq_file-interface.patch proc-convert-proc-pid-syscall-to-seq_file-interface.patch proc-fix-page_size-limit-of-proc-pid-cmdline.patch proc-convert-proc-pid-wchan-to-seq_file-interface.patch proc-convert-proc-pid-schedstat-to-seq_file-interface.patch proc-convert-proc-pid-oom_score-to-seq_file-interface.patch proc-convert-proc-pid-io-to-seq_file-interface.patch proc-convert-proc-pid-hardwall-to-seq_file-interface.patch proc-remove-inf-macro.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html