Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix build warning

[Guenter Roeck]

On 06/16/2014 06:25 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
> > If compiled with W=1, the following warning is seen in powerpc builds.
> >
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:750:18: warning:
> > 	type qualifiers ignored on function return type
> > static const int powerpc_smt_flags(void)
> >                   ^
> >
> > This is caused by a function returning 'const int', which doesn't
> > make sense to gcc. Drop 'const' to fix the problem.
> >
> > Reported-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Although it's strange you report this happening on line 750 in the
> changelog but the patch shows it differently.

In the latest kernel (v3.16-rc1) the function is at line 750.
It appears that I ran the build test on a later version than
the one I used to write the patch. Hope that is not a problem.

Guenter

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