Re: [PATCH] tty: mips_ejtag_fdc: Fix another passing incompatible pointer type warning

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Jan 11 2025 - 00:52:27 EST


On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 01:38:51AM +0800, Kexy Biscuit wrote:
> mips_ejtag_fdc_encode() method was changed to accept u8** since
> ce7cbd9a6c81, but not all occurrences were changed to adapt it.
>
> Some of the warnings or errors was fixed in a previous commit, this
> commit fixes one more of them.
>
> drivers/tty/mips_ejtag_fdc.c: In function ‘kgdbfdc_push_one’:
> drivers/tty/mips_ejtag_fdc.c:1224:38: error: passing argument 1 of ‘mips_ejtag_fdc_encode’ from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
> 1224 | word = mips_ejtag_fdc_encode(bufs, &kgdbfdc_wbuflen, 1);
> | ^~~~
> | |
> | const char **
> drivers/tty/mips_ejtag_fdc.c:216:57: note: expected ‘const u8 **’ {aka ‘const unsigned char **’} but argument is of type ‘const char **’
> 216 | static struct fdc_word mips_ejtag_fdc_encode(const u8 **ptrs,
> | ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
>
> Fixes: ce7cbd9a6c81 ("tty: mips_ejtag_fdc: use u8 for character pointers")
> Fixes: 188942f05ce4 ("tty: mips_ejtag_fdc: Fix passing incompatible pointer type warning")
> Signed-off-by: Kexy Biscuit <kexybiscuit@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/mips_ejtag_fdc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/mips_ejtag_fdc.c b/drivers/tty/mips_ejtag_fdc.c
> index afbf7738c7c47c3377560a3288fa95083dd1c6b0..1cc775e74f92d2c5e7a7b4bb500ff2ae758da8e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/mips_ejtag_fdc.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/mips_ejtag_fdc.c
> @@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ static int kgdbfdc_read_char(void)
> /* push an FDC word from write buffer to TX FIFO */
> static void kgdbfdc_push_one(void)
> {
> - const char *bufs[1] = { kgdbfdc_wbuf };
> + const u8 *bufs[1] = { kgdbfdc_wbuf };
> struct fdc_word word;
> void __iomem *regs;
> unsigned int i;

Jiri beat you to it yesterday:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250110115228.603980-1-jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx