Re: [PATCH 02/26] fscrypto: Constify struct inode pointer

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 02:48:17PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Some filesystems, such as UBIFS, maintain a const pointer
> for struct inode.
> 
>  /* fname.c */
> -extern int fscrypt_setup_filename(struct inode *, const struct qstr *,
> -				int lookup, struct fscrypt_name *);
> +extern int fscrypt_setup_filename(struct inode *dir, const struct qstr *iname,
> +			   int lookup, struct fscrypt_name *fname);

Was it deliberate that you didn't add a const pointer here?

I take it that ubifs is basically using const in certain places to
essentially promise that those functions don't actually modify the
inode structure?

							- Ted