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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Sachin P Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Linux-Next <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
	Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re:[BUILD FAILURE 04/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/net/ucc_geth.o]
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:03:11 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244685791.4674.12.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244685364.6494.14.camel@subratamodak.linux.ibm.com>

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On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 07:26 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:05 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Subrata,
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:13:23 +0530 Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  	/* Find the TBI PHY.  If it's not there, we don't support SGMII */
> > > -	ph = of_get_property(np, "tbi-handle", NULL);
> > > +	ph = (phandle *)of_get_property(np, "tbi-handle", NULL);
> > 
> > You don't need this cast because of_get_property() returns "void *".
> 
> Stephen,
> 
> True. But without this gcc complains:
> 
> CC [M]  drivers/net/ucc_geth.o
> drivers/net/ucc_geth.c: In function ‘ucc_geth_probe’:
> drivers/net/ucc_geth.c:3824: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^

And what does that warning actually mean?

Your cast actually introduces a bug.

cheers

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-11  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-10 17:43 [PATCH] Re:[BUILD FAILURE 04/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/net/ucc_geth.o] Subrata Modak
2009-06-11  1:05 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-06-11  1:56   ` Subrata Modak
2009-06-11  2:03     ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2009-06-11  2:22     ` Tony Breeds
2009-06-11  2:28     ` Nathan Lynch

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