Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: atmel: fix warning for const return value

From: Nicolas Ferre
Date: Mon Jul 27 2015 - 11:50:57 EST


Le 27/07/2015 17:41, Rob Herring a écrit :
> A const on a return value is meaningless and generates a warning on some
> versions of gcc:
>
> drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c:1003: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
>
> This was found on 0-day with avr32 builds with CONFIG_OF enabled, but
> it doesn't seem to generate warnings for other arches.
>
> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>

Sure:
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Rob!

> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
> index abadc49..66f4b70 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
> @@ -999,7 +999,7 @@ static const char *atmel_lcdfb_wiring_modes[] = {
> [ATMEL_LCDC_WIRING_RGB] = "RGB",
> };
>
> -const int atmel_lcdfb_get_of_wiring_modes(struct device_node *np)
> +int atmel_lcdfb_get_of_wiring_modes(struct device_node *np)
> {
> const char *mode;
> int err, i;
>


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Nicolas Ferre
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