Re: [PATCH] of: pass name argument for of_io_request_and_map as const char *

From: Matthias Brugger
Date: Thu Nov 13 2014 - 04:04:14 EST


I already send a patch for that which got accepted by Grant [0].
Although right now, I'm not able to find it on his repository [1].

Cheers,
Matthias

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/4/588
[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/glikely/linux.git/

2014-11-12 19:17 GMT+01:00 Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>:
> The name argument for of_io_request_and_map is only passed to
> request_mem_region, which is a macro of __request_region, which
> takes a const name argument.
>
> Make the name argument const, so when we pass const strings we
> don't get the following warnings:
>
> warning: passing argument 3 of 'of_io_request_and_map' discards
> 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
>
> In file included from drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sunxi.c:20:0:
> include/linux/of_address.h:108:15: note: expected 'char *' but
> argument is of type 'const char *'
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I ran into this while switching some of the sunxi clock code to use
> of_io_request_and_map.
>
> ---
> drivers/of/address.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/of_address.h | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/address.c b/drivers/of/address.c
> index afdb782..e02828f 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/address.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/address.c
> @@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_iomap);
> * return PTR_ERR(base);
> */
> void __iomem *of_io_request_and_map(struct device_node *np, int index,
> - char *name)
> + const char *name)
> {
> struct resource res;
> void __iomem *mem;
> diff --git a/include/linux/of_address.h b/include/linux/of_address.h
> index 8cb14eb..d88e81b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/of_address.h
> +++ b/include/linux/of_address.h
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ extern int of_address_to_resource(struct device_node *dev, int index,
> struct resource *r);
> void __iomem *of_iomap(struct device_node *node, int index);
> void __iomem *of_io_request_and_map(struct device_node *device,
> - int index, char *name);
> + int index, const char *name);
> #else
>
> #include <linux/io.h>
> @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static inline void __iomem *of_iomap(struct device_node *device, int index)
> }
>
> static inline void __iomem *of_io_request_and_map(struct device_node *device,
> - int index, char *name)
> + int index, const char *name)
> {
> return IOMEM_ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> }
> --
> 2.1.3
>



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