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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	gnurou@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: remove const modifier from gpiod_get_direction()
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:01:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141125080122.GY4431@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416900045-2304-1-git-send-email-acourbot@nvidia.com>

Hello Alexandre,

just some minor nitpicking on the commit log:

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 04:20:45PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> Although gpiod_get_direction() can be considered side-effect free for
> consumers, its internals involve setting or clearing bits in the
> affected GPIO descriptor, for which we need to force-cast the const
> descriptor parameter. This could lead to incorrect behavior is the
s/ is/ if/, and I think s/parameter/variable to non-const/

> compiler decide to optimize here, so remove this const parameter. The
s/decide/decides/; s/parameter/attribute/

> intent is to make gpiod_get_direction() private anyway, so it does not
> really matter.
> 
> Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

Thanks
Uwe

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-25  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-25  7:20 [PATCH] gpio: remove const modifier from gpiod_get_direction() Alexandre Courbot
2014-11-25  8:01 ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2014-11-25  8:09   ` Alexandre Courbot
2014-11-25  8:16     ` [PATCH v2] " Alexandre Courbot
2014-11-28 13:44       ` Linus Walleij

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