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From: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:11:59 -0700

> I was wondering if we'd need to be able to default a cpumask_t pointer
> argument to be a const and then use a different method for those cases
> where it shouldn't be?  This would strengthen the compiler type checking
> of functions calls.

Yes, of course, the pointer should be const.