Re: [PATCH] Make platform_device_add_data accept a const pointer.

[Scott Wood]

Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:54:47PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
>
> > platform_device_add_data() makes a copy of the data that is given to it,
> > and thus the parameter can be const.  This removes a warning when data
> > from get_property() on powerpc is handed to platform_device_add_data(),
> > as get_property() returns a const pointer.
>
>
> Doesn't this cause a compile warning in platform.c, concerning assigning
> 'data' to struct device's non-const 'platform_data' pointer?

No, because it doesn't assign data to platform_data; it memcpy()s it (as 
stated above).

-Scott
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