Re: [PATCH 3/3] media: mediatek: vcodedc: Fix Wcast-function-type-strict warnings

[Sami Tolvanen]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 10:17 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 02:12:22AM +0000, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> > Building with LLVM=1 throws the following warning:
> > drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/common/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c:38:32: warning: cast from 'mtk_vcodec_ipi_handler' (aka 'void (*)(void *, unsigned int, void *)') to 'ipi_handler_t' (aka 'void (*)(const void *, unsigned int, void *)') converts to incompatible function type [-Wcast-function-type-strict]
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I am not positive because I don't have any hardware to test this driver
> but I suspect this patch is just hiding the warning without actually
> addressing the issue that it is pointing out.

Agreed, this won't fix the issue. The correct solution is to drop the
cast and change the handler type to match the pointer type (i.e. use
const void* for the first argument).

Sami