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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
	Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: aspeed: fix compile warning in aspeed_smc_read_from_ahb()
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:37:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170208233728.GN94627@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1484817198-22477-1-git-send-email-clg@kaod.org>

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:13:18AM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> The first argument of ioread32_rep() and ioread8_rep is not
> const. Change aspeed_smc_read_from_ahb() prototype to fix compile
> warning :
> 
>    drivers/mtd/spi-nor/aspeed-smc.c: In function 'aspeed_smc_read_from_ahb':
>    drivers/mtd/spi-nor/aspeed-smc.c:212:16: warning: passing argument 1 of 'ioread32_rep' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
>       ioread32_rep(src, buf, len >> 2);

But why isn't that param constant? Seems like that's a bug in the
ioread* APIs. Some of their implementations are const, but some are not.

I see for instance that the implementation in lib/iomap.c is not const,
where there's zero reason it shouldn't be (if we also fix, e.g., its
mmio_insl()).

Brian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-08 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-19  9:13 [PATCH] mtd: aspeed: fix compile warning in aspeed_smc_read_from_ahb() Cédric Le Goater
2017-01-19 17:21 ` Marek Vasut
2017-01-20 13:11   ` Cyrille Pitchen
2017-02-08 23:37 ` Brian Norris [this message]
2017-02-09  9:05   ` Marek Vasut
2017-02-09  9:59     ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-02-09 15:04       ` Marek Vasut
2017-02-10  5:50         ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-02-10 15:09           ` Marek Vasut
2017-02-10 18:11     ` Brian Norris

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