Re: [PATCH] of: mtd: nuke useless const qualifier

[Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>]

On 07/10/2012 08:35 AM, Bityutskiy, Artem wrote:
> From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
> 
> This patch does the following:
>  -const int of_get_nand_ecc_mode(struct device_node *np)
>  +int of_get_nand_ecc_mode(struct device_node *np)
> 
> because:
> 1. it is probably just a typo?
> 2. it causes warnings like this when people assing the returned
>    value to an 'int' variable:
>    include/linux/of_mtd.h:14:18: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type [-Wignored-qualifiers]
> 
> Remove also the unnecessary "extern" qualifier to be consistent with other
> declarations in this file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
> ---

Applied. Next time please don't PGP sign patches.

Rob

>  drivers/of/of_mtd.c    |    2 +-
>  include/linux/of_mtd.h |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/of/of_mtd.c b/drivers/of/of_mtd.c
> index e7cad62..a27ec94 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/of_mtd.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/of_mtd.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static const char *nand_ecc_modes[] = {
>   * The function gets ecc mode string from property 'nand-ecc-mode',
>   * and return its index in nand_ecc_modes table, or errno in error case.
>   */
> -const int of_get_nand_ecc_mode(struct device_node *np)
> +int of_get_nand_ecc_mode(struct device_node *np)
>  {
>  	const char *pm;
>  	int err, i;
> diff --git a/include/linux/of_mtd.h b/include/linux/of_mtd.h
> index bae1b60..ed7f267 100644
> --- a/include/linux/of_mtd.h
> +++ b/include/linux/of_mtd.h
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_OF_MTD
>  #include <linux/of.h>
> -extern const int of_get_nand_ecc_mode(struct device_node *np);
> +int of_get_nand_ecc_mode(struct device_node *np);
>  int of_get_nand_bus_width(struct device_node *np);
>  bool of_get_nand_on_flash_bbt(struct device_node *np);
>  #endif
> 
> 
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