Re: [PATCH net-next v11 3/4] net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add I2C transport

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Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [Low] The `const` qualifier is discarded via casting when passing `req` to `i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data`.
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--- Patch [3]: [PATCH net-next v11 3/4] net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add I2C transport ---
commit 3cb487f7edfeb05d920f7d12d74317a730a8187a
Author: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>

net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add I2C transport

Add the I2C/SMBus transport for the Realtek PSE MCU core. It registers
the MCU on an I2C bus and provides the send/recv callbacks the core
uses to exchange the 12-byte frames.

Acked-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>

> diff --git a/drivers/net/pse-pd/realtek-pse-mcu-i2c.c b/drivers/net/pse-pd/realtek-pse-mcu-i2c.c
> new file mode 100644
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/net/pse-pd/realtek-pse-mcu-i2c.c

[ ... ]

> +static int rtpse_mcu_i2c_smbus_send(struct rtpse_mcu_ctrl *pse, const struct rtpse_mcu_msg *req)
> +{
> +	struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(pse->dev);
> +
> +	/* Send opcode as SMBus command byte; remaining 11 bytes as block data */
> +	return i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data(client, req->opcode, RTPSE_MCU_MSG_SIZE - 1,
> +					      (u8 *)req + 1);

[Severity: Low]
This isn't a bug, but could we use a const cast here to avoid discarding the
const qualifier from the req parameter?

The i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data() function takes a const u8 * for the
values array, so a cast to (const u8 *) would preserve the const-correctness
of the req pointer.

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