Re: [PATCH] c6x: kernel: setup: Type cast 'fdt' to "void *" for early_init_dt_scan() in machine_init()

[Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 16:11 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> early_init_dt_scan() accepts "void *", so c6x needs to type cast 'fdt'
> to "void *" to avoid warning:
> 
>     CC      arch/c6x/kernel/setup.o
>   arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c: In function 'machine_init':
>   arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c:290:21: warning: passing argument 1 of 'early_init_dt_scan' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
>     early_init_dt_scan(fdt);
>                        ^
>   In file included from arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c:19:0:
>   include/linux/of_fdt.h:75:13: note: expected 'void *' but argument is of type 'const void *'
>    extern bool early_init_dt_scan(void *params);
>                ^
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c b/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c
> index a5f6e0e..e5ea757 100644
> --- a/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ notrace void __init machine_init(unsigned long dt_ptr)
>  		fdt = dtb;
>  
>  	/* Do some early initialization based on the flat device tree */
> -	early_init_dt_scan(fdt);
> +	early_init_dt_scan((void *)fdt);
>  
>  	parse_early_param();
>  }

I don't like the cast. I think the thing to do is just remove the const
from local variables.