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From: Link Mauve <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Cc: "Link Mauve" <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr>,
	"Srinivas Kandagatla" <srini@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] nvmem: migrate to const void * in reg_write
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:03:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <anmiAfteOQzPXRqX@desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <anl9ZRM0REenBK8t@ashevche-desk.local>

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 10:27:33AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 03:17:18PM +0200, Link Mauve wrote:
> > This callback used to take a mutable void * for no reason, which causes
> > the compiler to be unaware that the val buffer should never be modified
> > by the callback.
> > 
> > This was found while drafting the nvmem-provider Rust abstraction.
> > 
> > Thanks to the guidance of Andy Shevchenko, this now introduces a new
> > callback and deprecates the existing one, with the goal of renaming the
> > new one into the old one once no user remains in the kernel.
> 
> LGTM now, FWIW,
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
> 
> But I think you also need to provide a road map of finishing this job (the best
> is to provide a continuation in some of yours public Git trees to point out).

I’ve just pushed these changes here, as usual just build-tested:
https://github.com/linkmauve/linux/commits/nvmem-v6

I was planning on working on those after the 7.3 merge window if this
series indeed goes into 7.3, but I was never worried this would be hard
to do, it’s a pretty mechanical change.

> 
> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
> 
> 

-- 
Link Mauve

  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-10 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-26 13:17 [PATCH v4 0/3] nvmem: migrate to const void * in reg_write Link Mauve
2026-07-26 13:17 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] firmware: meson: pass a const buffer to meson_sm_call_write() Link Mauve
2026-07-26 13:17 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] nvmem: core: deprecate reg_write callback and add reg_write_const Link Mauve
2026-07-26 13:17 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] nvmem: make all reg_write callbacks take const void * Link Mauve
2026-08-10  7:27 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] nvmem: migrate to const void * in reg_write Andy Shevchenko
2026-08-10 10:03   ` Link Mauve [this message]
2026-08-10 11:10   ` Link Mauve

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