[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/fb.h b/include/linux/fb.h
index 82e39cd..c698055 100644
--- a/include/linux/fb.h
+++ b/include/linux/fb.h
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@
__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 */
};