diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 19cd5c1e1bd3470a8f576fe9babcff2dbfcf5f72..581fd1798372ec7da4784837db2e489065ba2c71 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4723,7 +4723,7 @@ static void bond_free_all(void)
  * some mode names are substrings of other names, and calls from sysfs
  * may have whitespace in the name (trailing newlines, for example).
  */
-int bond_parse_parm(const char *buf, struct bond_parm_tbl *tbl)
+int bond_parse_parm(const char *buf, const struct bond_parm_tbl *tbl)
 {
 	int mode = -1, i, rv;
 	char *p, modestr[BOND_MAX_MODENAME_LEN + 1] = { 0, };
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h b/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
index 27642f2c4a375a3798891691b71ae34de50b8cab..12384aefad230f730b6cefaceec8e717c8224300 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ void bond_mii_monitor(struct work_struct *);
 void bond_loadbalance_arp_mon(struct work_struct *);
 void bond_activebackup_arp_mon(struct work_struct *);
 void bond_set_mode_ops(struct bonding *bond, int mode);
-int bond_parse_parm(const char *mode_arg, struct bond_parm_tbl *tbl);
+int bond_parse_parm(const char *mode_arg, const struct bond_parm_tbl *tbl);
 void bond_select_active_slave(struct bonding *bond);
 void bond_change_active_slave(struct bonding *bond, struct slave *new_active);
 void bond_register_arp(struct bonding *);