net: mark read-only arrays as const

String literals are constant, and usually, we can also tag the array
of pointers const too, moving it to the .rodata section.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

6 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/ip_vs.h b/include/net/ip_vs.h
index 1c8ee1b1365..98978e73f66 100644
--- a/include/net/ip_vs.h
+++ b/include/net/ip_vs.h
@@ -738,7 +738,8 @@ extern void ip_vs_protocol_cleanup(void);
 extern void ip_vs_protocol_timeout_change(int flags);
 extern int *ip_vs_create_timeout_table(int *table, int size);
 extern int
-ip_vs_set_state_timeout(int *table, int num, char **names, char *name, int to);
+ip_vs_set_state_timeout(int *table, int num, const char *const *names,
+			const char *name, int to);
 extern void
 ip_vs_tcpudp_debug_packet(struct ip_vs_protocol *pp, const struct sk_buff *skb,
 			  int offset, const char *msg);
diff --git a/include/net/irda/ircomm_event.h b/include/net/irda/ircomm_event.h
index c290447872d..bc0c6f31f1c 100644
--- a/include/net/irda/ircomm_event.h
+++ b/include/net/irda/ircomm_event.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ struct ircomm_info {
 	struct qos_info *qos;
 };
 
-extern char *ircomm_state[];
+extern const char *const ircomm_state[];
 
 struct ircomm_cb;   /* Forward decl. */
 
diff --git a/include/net/irda/ircomm_tty_attach.h b/include/net/irda/ircomm_tty_attach.h
index f91a5695aa4..0a63bbb972d 100644
--- a/include/net/irda/ircomm_tty_attach.h
+++ b/include/net/irda/ircomm_tty_attach.h
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ struct ircomm_tty_info {
         __u8      dlsap_sel;
 };
 
-extern char *ircomm_state[];
-extern char *ircomm_tty_state[];
+extern const char *const ircomm_state[];
+extern const char *const ircomm_tty_state[];
 
 int ircomm_tty_do_event(struct ircomm_tty_cb *self, IRCOMM_TTY_EVENT event,
 			struct sk_buff *skb, struct ircomm_tty_info *info);
diff --git a/include/net/irda/irlap_event.h b/include/net/irda/irlap_event.h
index 2ae2e119ef4..4c90824c50f 100644
--- a/include/net/irda/irlap_event.h
+++ b/include/net/irda/irlap_event.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ typedef enum { /* FIXME check the two first reason codes */
 	LAP_PRIMARY_CONFLICT,
 } LAP_REASON;
 
-extern const char *irlap_state[];
+extern const char *const irlap_state[];
 
 void irlap_do_event(struct irlap_cb *self, IRLAP_EVENT event, 
 		    struct sk_buff *skb, struct irlap_info *info);
diff --git a/include/net/irda/irlmp_event.h b/include/net/irda/irlmp_event.h
index e03ae4ae396..9e4ec17a744 100644
--- a/include/net/irda/irlmp_event.h
+++ b/include/net/irda/irlmp_event.h
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ typedef enum {
 	LM_LAP_IDLE_TIMEOUT,
 } IRLMP_EVENT;
 
-extern const char *irlmp_state[];
-extern const char *irlsap_state[];
+extern const char *const irlmp_state[];
+extern const char *const irlsap_state[];
 
 void irlmp_watchdog_timer_expired(void *data);
 void irlmp_discovery_timer_expired(void *data);
diff --git a/include/net/sctp/constants.h b/include/net/sctp/constants.h
index b05b0557211..8bc25f7b04c 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/constants.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/constants.h
@@ -241,7 +241,9 @@ const char *sctp_tname(const sctp_subtype_t);	/* timeouts */
 const char *sctp_pname(const sctp_subtype_t);	/* primitives */
 
 /* This is a table of printable names of sctp_state_t's.  */
-extern const char *sctp_state_tbl[], *sctp_evttype_tbl[], *sctp_status_tbl[];
+extern const char *const sctp_state_tbl[];
+extern const char *const sctp_evttype_tbl[];
+extern const char *const sctp_status_tbl[];
 
 /* Maximum chunk length considering padding requirements. */
 enum { SCTP_MAX_CHUNK_LEN = ((1<<16) - sizeof(__u32)) };