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| author | Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> | 2005-09-13 01:25:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-09-13 08:22:32 -0700 |
| commit | 2f4516dbd048f25eba78e115e8e73e1e8f04e7f9 (patch) | |
| tree | e803f2b6c128aee352f00455547417752e9f9114 /include/linux | |
| parent | e703ecc3bfbe10f478500798c0c5826d00ad9fe3 (diff) | |
[PATCH] fbcon: constify font data
const-ify the font control structures and data, to make somewhat better
guarantees that these are not modified anywhere in the kernel.
Specifically for a kernel debugger to share this information from the
normal kernel code, such a guarantee seems rather desirable.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fb.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/font.h | 10 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fb.h b/include/linux/fb.h index 82e39cd0c4fb..c698055266d0 100644 --- a/include/linux/fb.h +++ b/include/linux/fb.h @@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ struct fb_tilemap { __u32 height; /* height of each tile in scanlines */ __u32 depth; /* color depth of each tile */ __u32 length; /* number of tiles in the map */ - __u8 *data; /* actual tile map: a bitmap array, packed + const __u8 *data; /* actual tile map: a bitmap array, packed to the nearest byte */ }; diff --git a/include/linux/font.h b/include/linux/font.h index 8fc80a7d78ac..53b129f07f6f 100644 --- a/include/linux/font.h +++ b/include/linux/font.h @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ struct font_desc { int idx; - char *name; + const char *name; int width, height; - void *data; + const void *data; int pref; }; @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ struct font_desc { #define ACORN8x8_IDX 8 #define MINI4x6_IDX 9 -extern struct font_desc font_vga_8x8, +extern const struct font_desc font_vga_8x8, font_vga_8x16, font_pearl_8x8, font_vga_6x11, @@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ extern struct font_desc font_vga_8x8, /* Find a font with a specific name */ -extern struct font_desc *find_font(char *name); +extern const struct font_desc *find_font(const char *name); /* Get the default font for a specific screen size */ -extern struct font_desc *get_default_font(int xres, int yres); +extern const struct font_desc *get_default_font(int xres, int yres); /* Max. length for the name of a predefined font */ #define MAX_FONT_NAME 32 |