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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] netlink: let nlmsg and nla functions take
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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:06:36 +0100 (CET)

> parent 2531add5568de01edcabf321d1bbb69a6a6d6c27 (v2.6.36-4468-g2531add)
> commit f87d7f1b74689c96cc2f53b8cabfd309d7ad1bda
> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
> Date:   Wed Nov 10 00:10:55 2010 +0100
> 
> netlink: let nlmsg and nla functions take pointer-to-const args
> 
> The changed functions do not modify the NL messages and/or attributes
> at all. They should use const (similar to strchr), so that callers
> which have a const nlmsg/nlattr around can make use of them without
> casting.
> 
> While at it, constify a data array.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>

Applied.