Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] nvmem: fix a const-unsoundness in reg_write

From: Andy Shevchenko

Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 13:56:31 EST


On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 01:29:44PM +0200, Link Mauve wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 12:03:17PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

[…]

> > TL;DR: you should fix the Apple driver (and might more if any of them
> > use that dirty trick).
>
> It was the only one of the drivers/nvmem/ to do that. Three other
> drivers use a pattern where they merge read and write operations into a
> single access function with a type=read/write parameter, so const safety
> can’t work there and I’ll continue casting from const void * to void *
> in the write function to keep that pattern working.

I meant all the driver in the kernel that are going to be affected by this
change.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko