[PATCH 02/12] pinctrl: at91-pio4: account for const type of of_device_id.data

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Tue Jan 2 23:58:24 PST 2018


On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr> wrote:

> This driver creates a const structure that it stores in the data field
> of an of_device_id array.
>
> Adding const to the declaration of the location that receives the
> const value from the data field ensures that the compiler will
> continue to check that the value is not modified.  Furthermore, the
> const-discarding cast on the extraction from the data field is no
> longer needed.
>
> Done using Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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