From: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@heitbaum.com>
To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rudi@heitbaum.com
Subject: [PATCH v4l-utils] treewide: fix discards 'const' qualifier from pointer
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:08:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aZLepuHgTGpgBc2m@f4d934329c4f> (raw)
For ISO C23, the functions strchr, strrchr, and strstr that return
pointers into their input arrays now have definitions as macros that
return a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input argument is
a pointer to a const-qualified type.
Update to const type for variable, as returned string is only used in
comparisons which const can be used.
fixes:
../lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c:220:19: warning: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
220 | p = strstr(pci_dev, "0x");
| ^
../lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c:224:19: warning: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
224 | p = strstr(pci_vend, "0x");
| ^
../utils/libmedia_dev/get_media_devices.c: In function 'get_associated_device':
../utils/libmedia_dev/get_media_devices.c:459:19: warning: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
459 | p = strrchr(seek_device, '/');
| ^
../utils/ir-ctl/ir-ctl.c: In function 'read_scancode':
../utils/ir-ctl/ir-ctl.c:530:19: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
530 | char *p = strchr(name, ':');
| ^~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@heitbaum.com>
---
lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c | 3 +--
utils/ir-ctl/ir-ctl.c | 2 +-
utils/libmedia_dev/get_media_devices.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c b/lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c
index ea511471..b89a6c87 100644
--- a/lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c
+++ b/lib/libdvbv5/dvb-dev-local.c
@@ -208,8 +208,7 @@ static int handle_device_change(struct dvb_device_priv *dvb,
/* Get optional per-bus fields associated with the device parent */
if (!strcmp(bus_type, "pci")) {
- const char *pci_dev, *pci_vend;
- char *p;
+ const char *p, *pci_dev, *pci_vend;
pci_dev = udev_device_get_sysattr_value(parent, "subsystem_device");
pci_vend = udev_device_get_sysattr_value(parent, "subsystem_vendor");
diff --git a/utils/ir-ctl/ir-ctl.c b/utils/ir-ctl/ir-ctl.c
index 8600fbe6..d2ff77e4 100644
--- a/utils/ir-ctl/ir-ctl.c
+++ b/utils/ir-ctl/ir-ctl.c
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ static struct send *read_scancode(const char *name)
struct send *f;
unsigned scancode;
char *pstr;
- char *p = strchr(name, ':');
+ const char *p = strchr(name, ':');
if (!p) {
fprintf(stderr, _("error: scancode '%s' must be in protocol:scancode format\n"), name);
diff --git a/utils/libmedia_dev/get_media_devices.c b/utils/libmedia_dev/get_media_devices.c
index 21920867..28efb658 100644
--- a/utils/libmedia_dev/get_media_devices.c
+++ b/utils/libmedia_dev/get_media_devices.c
@@ -452,7 +452,8 @@ const char *get_associated_device(void *opaque,
struct media_devices *md = opaque;
struct media_device_entry *md_ptr = md->md_entry;
int i, found = 0;
- char *prev, *p;
+ const char *p;
+ char *prev;
if (seek_type != NONE && seek_device[0]) {
/* Get just the device name */
--
2.51.0
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