Re: [PATCH 02/12] pinctrl: at91-pio4: account for const type of of_device_id.data

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Jan 03 2018 - 02:58:32 EST


On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This driver creates a const structure that it stores in the data field
> of an of_device_id array.
>
> Adding const to the declaration of the location that receives the
> const value from the data field ensures that the compiler will
> continue to check that the value is not modified. Furthermore, the
> const-discarding cast on the extraction from the data field is no
> longer needed.
>
> Done using Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij