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To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Handle absolute pathnames correctly in dtc_open_file.
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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:25:56 -0600
From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
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So, like, the other day Scott Wood mumbled:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:37:16PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > >  out:
> > > +	free((void *)file->dir);
> > 
> > That cast shouldn't be there.
> 
> It generates a constness warning otherwise.  I was on the fence over
> whether to just remove the constness (even though the data is never
> modified during its lifetime); would that be preferable?

The earlier patch was applied for functionality reasons.
If needed, a follow-up patch to sort this out is still welcome.

jdl