Re: [PATCH] kernel: Fix ftrace.c compiler warning when calling ftrace_nop_replace()

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 05/23/2011 01:01 PM, John Kacur wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2011, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> The real solution is to change all the users into const *. This should
>> be doable as the new and old pointers are not modified.


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> From: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 21:24:27 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] ftrace: Change unsigned char *new, *old to const
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> This removes the warning:
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c: In function ‘ftrace_make_nop’:
> /arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:308: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> 
> Steven Rostedt suggested to make these pointers const pointers.
> 
> This patch assumes that
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/798172/
> is applied first.
> 
> Reported-by: Eduardo Silva <edsiper@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>

Looks much better.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

	-hpa