Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix xfs_mode_to_ftype() prototype

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Wed Jan 18 2017 - 15:55:27 EST


On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 04:12:58PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A harmless warning just got introduced:
>
> fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.h:40:8: error: type qualifiers ignored on function return type [-Werror=ignored-qualifiers]
>
> Removing the 'const' modifier avoids the warning and has no
> other effect.
>
> Fixes: 1fc4d33fed12 ("xfs: replace xfs_mode_to_ftype table with switch statement")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

--D

> ---
> fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.c | 2 +-
> fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.h | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.c
> index eb64f3884d3d..2f389d366e93 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.c
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ struct xfs_name xfs_name_dotdot = { (unsigned char *)"..", 2, XFS_DIR3_FT_DIR };
> /*
> * Convert inode mode to directory entry filetype
> */
> -const unsigned char xfs_mode_to_ftype(int mode)
> +unsigned char xfs_mode_to_ftype(int mode)
> {
> switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
> case S_IFREG:
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.h
> index d4b77ab37a98..d6e6d9d16f6c 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.h
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.h
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ extern struct xfs_name xfs_name_dotdot;
> /*
> * Convert inode mode to directory entry filetype
> */
> -extern const unsigned char xfs_mode_to_ftype(int mode);
> +extern unsigned char xfs_mode_to_ftype(int mode);
>
> /*
> * directory operations vector for encode/decode routines
> --
> 2.9.0
>
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