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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> | 2008-09-30 02:22:14 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-09-30 02:22:14 -0700 |
| commit | cf04a4c764cd3e651a64b3e667bb6a673ead99e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 61fc379e33ca08e68326b9f76577fd2a57435034 | |
| parent | db4148da2cc84c31419b5e3ae3115ac6e11817a1 (diff) | |
netdev: use const for some name functions
dev_change_name and netdev_drivername should use const char on
parameters that are read-only input values. The strcpy to newname is
not needed since newname is not used later in function.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 9 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index d675df08b94..9cfd20be8b7 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ extern int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *); extern int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *); extern unsigned dev_get_flags(const struct net_device *); extern int dev_change_flags(struct net_device *, unsigned); -extern int dev_change_name(struct net_device *, char *); +extern int dev_change_name(struct net_device *, const char *); extern int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *, const char *, size_t); extern int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *, struct net *, const char *); @@ -1670,7 +1670,7 @@ extern void dev_seq_stop(struct seq_file *seq, void *v); extern int netdev_class_create_file(struct class_attribute *class_attr); extern void netdev_class_remove_file(struct class_attribute *class_attr); -extern char *netdev_drivername(struct net_device *dev, char *buffer, int len); +extern char *netdev_drivername(const struct net_device *dev, char *buffer, int len); extern void linkwatch_run_queue(void); diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index a90737fe247..64f0d5b7cdf 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ int dev_alloc_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *name) * Change name of a device, can pass format strings "eth%d". * for wildcarding. */ -int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, char *newname) +int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *newname) { char oldname[IFNAMSIZ]; int err = 0; @@ -916,7 +916,6 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, char *newname) err = dev_alloc_name(dev, newname); if (err < 0) return err; - strcpy(newname, dev->name); } else if (__dev_get_by_name(net, newname)) return -EEXIST; @@ -4754,10 +4753,10 @@ err_name: return -ENOMEM; } -char *netdev_drivername(struct net_device *dev, char *buffer, int len) +char *netdev_drivername(const struct net_device *dev, char *buffer, int len) { - struct device_driver *driver; - struct device *parent; + const struct device_driver *driver; + const struct device *parent; if (len <= 0 || !buffer) return buffer; |