[PATCH 07/12] i2c: rk3x: account for const type of of_device_id.data

Heiko Stuebner heiko at sntech.de
Wed Jan 17 03:00:01 PST 2018


Am Montag, 15. Januar 2018, 19:24:56 CET schrieb Wolfram Sang:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 02:28:03PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > This driver creates a number of const structures that it stores in
> > the data field of an of_device_id array.
> > 
> > The data field of an of_device_id structure has type const void *, so
> > there is no need for a const-discarding cast when putting const values
> > into such a structure.
> > 
> > Furthermore, adding const to the declaration of the location that
> > receives a const value from such a field ensures that the compiler
> > will continue to check that the value is not modified.  The
> > const-discarding cast on the extraction from the data field is thus
> > no longer needed.
> > 
> > Done using Coccinelle.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>
> 
> Heiko, you okay with the patch?

Looks good to me and does not seem to contain any changes related
to actual functionality, so
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>



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