On Aug 28 2007 01:33, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
>On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:40:31PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> Add const to some struct task_struct * uses
>
>Why, oh, why?
So that you can actually pass in a const struct task_struct * without having
to cast it back to [non-const].
Why one would have a const struct task_struct * in the first place
is a different matter.
But see http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=77adbfbf4cf96fedf9b75bb330704828c187b190
Jan
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