crc8() does not change the data passed to it, so the pointer argument should be declared const. This avoids callers that receive const data having to cast it to a non-const pointer to call crc8().
Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <r...@opensource.cirrus.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> --- No maintainer listed for this file so including Andrew Morton on the 'to' list. --- include/linux/crc8.h | 2 +- lib/crc8.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/crc8.h b/include/linux/crc8.h index 13c8dabb0441..674045c59a04 100644 --- a/include/linux/crc8.h +++ b/include/linux/crc8.h @@ -96,6 +96,6 @@ void crc8_populate_msb(u8 table[CRC8_TABLE_SIZE], u8 polynomial); * Williams, Ross N., ross<at>ross.net * (see URL http://www.ross.net/crc/download/crc_v3.txt). */ -u8 crc8(const u8 table[CRC8_TABLE_SIZE], u8 *pdata, size_t nbytes, u8 crc); +u8 crc8(const u8 table[CRC8_TABLE_SIZE], const u8 *pdata, size_t nbytes, u8 crc); #endif /* __CRC8_H_ */ diff --git a/lib/crc8.c b/lib/crc8.c index 595a5a75e3cd..1ad8e501d9b6 100644 --- a/lib/crc8.c +++ b/lib/crc8.c @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(crc8_populate_lsb); * @nbytes: number of bytes in data buffer. * @crc: previous returned crc8 value. */ -u8 crc8(const u8 table[CRC8_TABLE_SIZE], u8 *pdata, size_t nbytes, u8 crc) +u8 crc8(const u8 table[CRC8_TABLE_SIZE], const u8 *pdata, size_t nbytes, u8 crc) { /* loop over the buffer data */ while (nbytes-- > 0) -- 2.20.1
