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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Thomas Schlichter <thomas.schlichter@web.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix warning about duplicate 'const'
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:14:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040308161410.49127bdf.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403090043.21043.thomas.schlichter@web.de>

Thomas Schlichter <thomas.schlichter@web.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> attached is a patch which fixes following wanings:
> 
> drivers/ide/ide-tape.c: In function `idetape_setup':
> drivers/ide/ide-tape.c:4701: Warnung: duplicate `const'
> drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_g450.c: In function `g450_compute_bwlevel':
> drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_g450.c:129: Warnung: duplicate `const'
> drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_g450.c:130: Warnung: duplicate `const'
> drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c: In function `maven_compute_bwlevel':
> drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c:347: Warnung: duplicate `const'
> drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c:348: Warnung: duplicate `const'
> 
> This is done by removing the 'const' from the temporary variables of the min() 
> and max() macros. For me it seems to have no negative impact, so please 
> consider applying...

I think there was a reason for those consts in kernel.h's min() and max()
macros, but memory fails me.  Linus, do you recall?


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-09  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-08 23:43 Thomas Schlichter
2004-03-09  0:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-03-09  0:32   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-09  1:17     ` Thomas Schlichter
2004-03-09  1:32       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-09  1:35         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-10  4:08         ` Keith Duthie
     [not found]         ` <20040310054918.GB4068@twiddle.net>
2004-03-10  8:10           ` Gabriel Dos Reis
     [not found]           ` <20040310064001.GA7584@daikokuya.co.uk>
2004-03-10 10:15             ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-03-10 15:43           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-10 18:22             ` Richard Henderson
2004-03-10 18:29               ` Andrew Haley
2004-03-10 18:35                 ` Paul Koning
2004-03-10 18:37                 ` Richard Henderson
2004-03-16  1:46             ` Mike Stump

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