[PATCH 13/25] macintosh/mediabay: add a const qualifier
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Sep 5 05:23:43 EDT 2012
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 10:02 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 12:40:17PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 11:13 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > This prepares *of_device_id.data becoming const. Without this change
> > > the following warning would occur:
> > >
> > > drivers/macintosh/mediabay.c: In function 'media_bay_attach':
> > > drivers/macintosh/mediabay.c:589:11: warning: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> > > ---
> >
> > Ack all of these assuming you test built (I didn't).
> "all" means the two mediabay patches? And yes, they are all built
> tested.
Yeah, anything powerpc you had in your series, but the two mediabay ones
are what I spotted when digging through stuff today :-)
> > Do you need me to
> > carry any of this via the powerpc tree ?
> The patch that adds the const to of_device_id depends[1] on this patch.
> And the other mediabay is only valid after that const is added. So the
> easiest is if the series is pulled in one go. Arnd intended to let Linus
> pull it for 3.6-rc1 but it was missed because of a communication
> problem. So I intend to get it in during the 3.7 merge window.
Ok, I'm happy for Arnd to carry all of these, I trust his
judgement/review for that stuff including for ppc specific bits.
Cheers,
Ben.
> Best regards
> Uwe
>
> [1] it's only a soft depend, because the result is "only" a warning, but
> still.
>
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