[PATCH] register_chrdev_region(), alloc_chrdev_region() const char

A couple chrdev routines take a constant string and should be declared with
const char *.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

fs/char_dev.c

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ __unregister_chrdev_region(unsigned major, unsigned baseminor, int minorct)
 	return cd;
 }
 
-int register_chrdev_region(dev_t from, unsigned count, char *name)
+int register_chrdev_region(dev_t from, unsigned count, const char *name)
 {
 	struct char_device_struct *cd;
 	dev_t to = from + count;
@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ int register_chrdev_region(dev_t from, unsigned count, char *name)
 	return PTR_ERR(cd);
 }
 
-int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *dev, unsigned baseminor, unsigned count, char *name)
+int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *dev, unsigned baseminor, unsigned count,
+			const char *name)
 {
 	struct char_device_struct *cd;
 	cd = __register_chrdev_region(0, baseminor, count, name);

include/linux/fs.h

@@ -1270,8 +1270,8 @@ extern int bd_claim(struct block_device *, void *);
 extern void bd_release(struct block_device *);
 
 /* fs/char_dev.c */
-extern int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *, unsigned, unsigned, char *);
-extern int register_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned, char *);
+extern int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *, unsigned, unsigned, const char *);
+extern int register_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned, const char *);
 extern int register_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *,
 			   struct file_operations *);
 extern int unregister_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *);