tty: constify return type of tty_name
All users of tty_name pass the result directly to a printf-like
function. This means we can actually let tty_name return the literal
"NULL tty" or tty->name directly, avoiding the strcpy and a lot of
medium-sized stack buffers. In preparation for that, make the return
type const char*.
While at it, we can also constify the tty parameter.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index e569546..5a49a4a 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
* Locking: none
*/
-char *tty_name(struct tty_struct *tty, char *buf)
+const char *tty_name(const struct tty_struct *tty, char *buf)
{
if (!tty) /* Hmm. NULL pointer. That's fun. */
strcpy(buf, "NULL tty");