Re: [PATCH] efi: remove duplicate 'const' specifiers

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 11 May 2017 at 12:43, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> gcc-7 shows a harmless warning:
>
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/secureboot.c:19:27: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier]
>  static const efi_char16_t const efi_SecureBoot_name[] = {
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/secureboot.c:22:27: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier]
>
> Removing one of the specifiers gives us the expected behavior.
>
> Fixes: de8cb458625c ("efi: Get and store the secure boot status")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/secureboot.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/secureboot.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/secureboot.c
> index 8c34d50a4d80..959777ec8a77 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/secureboot.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/secureboot.c
> @@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
>
>  /* BIOS variables */
>  static const efi_guid_t efi_variable_guid = EFI_GLOBAL_VARIABLE_GUID;
> -static const efi_char16_t const efi_SecureBoot_name[] = {
> +static const efi_char16_t efi_SecureBoot_name[] = {
>         'S', 'e', 'c', 'u', 'r', 'e', 'B', 'o', 'o', 't', 0
>  };
> -static const efi_char16_t const efi_SetupMode_name[] = {
> +static const efi_char16_t efi_SetupMode_name[] = {
>         'S', 'e', 't', 'u', 'p', 'M', 'o', 'd', 'e', 0
>  };
>
> --
> 2.9.0
>