Re: [PATCH] De-constify sched.h

[David Miller]

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:42:30 -0700 (PDT)

> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 
> > 2) There is no such thing as const task_struct. Anyone who think otherwise
> >    deserves compiler warning.
> > 
> 
> A 'const struct task_struct *' can be used as an annotation to mean that 
> no member of the struct is modified through that pointer, so it's 
> perfectly acceptable to qualify formals in that manner.

But in one of the cases he un-const's the code does modify
the object through the pointer.  At least that one should
be reverted since the annotation is wrong.
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