The patch titled
hexdump: use const notation
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
hexdump-use-const-notation.patch
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Subject: hexdump: use const notation
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@xxxxxxxxx>
Mark the buffer to hexdump as const so callers could avoid casting their
const buffers when calling print_hex_dump().
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/kernel.h | 2 +-
lib/hexdump.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/kernel.h~hexdump-use-const-notation include/linux/kernel.h
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h~hexdump-use-const-notation
+++ a/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const voi
char *linebuf, size_t linebuflen, bool ascii);
extern void print_hex_dump(const char *level, const char *prefix_str,
int prefix_type, int rowsize, int groupsize,
- void *buf, size_t len, bool ascii);
+ const void *buf, size_t len, bool ascii);
extern void print_hex_dump_bytes(const char *prefix_str, int prefix_type,
void *buf, size_t len);
#define hex_asc(x) "0123456789abcdef"[x]
diff -puN lib/hexdump.c~hexdump-use-const-notation lib/hexdump.c
--- a/lib/hexdump.c~hexdump-use-const-notation
+++ a/lib/hexdump.c
@@ -145,9 +145,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex_dump_to_buffer);
*/
void print_hex_dump(const char *level, const char *prefix_str, int prefix_type,
int rowsize, int groupsize,
- void *buf, size_t len, bool ascii)
+ const void *buf, size_t len, bool ascii)
{
- u8 *ptr = buf;
+ const u8 *ptr = buf;
int i, linelen, remaining = len;
unsigned char linebuf[200];
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dedekind@xxxxxxxxx are
hexdump-use-const-notation.patch
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