Re: [PATCH v2] c6x: kernel: setup: Remove 'const' for local variables in machine_init

[Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 04:55 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> early_init_dt_scan() accepts "void *", the related warning:
> 
>     CC      arch/c6x/kernel/setup.o
>   arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c: In function 'machine_init':
>   arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c:290:21: warning: passing argument 1 of 'early_init_dt_scan' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
>     early_init_dt_scan(fdt);
>                        ^
>   In file included from arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c:19:0:
>   include/linux/of_fdt.h:75:13: note: expected 'void *' but argument is of type 'const void *'
>    extern bool early_init_dt_scan(void *params);
>                ^
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
> ---

Thanks! I added this to the c6x tree for next merge window.

>  arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c b/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c
> index f016128..1d9f399 100644
> --- a/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/c6x/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -265,8 +265,8 @@ int __init c6x_add_memory(phys_addr_t start, unsigned long size)
>   */
>  notrace void __init machine_init(unsigned long dt_ptr)
>  {
> -	const void *dtb = __va(dt_ptr);
> -	const void *fdt = _fdt_start;
> +	void *dtb = __va(dt_ptr);
> +	void *fdt = _fdt_start;
>  
>  	/* interrupts must be masked */
>  	set_creg(IER, 2);