Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: at91_adc: use const char * for DT string property

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:47:08 -0500
David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com> wrote:

> On 7/22/26 2:39 PM, Amin GATTOUT wrote:
> > Declare the local variable as const char * and remove the unnecessary cast
> > when passing it to of_property_read_string().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Amin GATTOUT <amin.gattout@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c b/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c
> > index f610ad729bf3..0ac74ad92fca 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c
> > @@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ static int at91_adc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  	struct iio_dev *idev;
> >  	struct at91_adc_state *st;
> >  	u32 reg, prop;
> > -	char *s;
> > +	const char *s;
> >  
> >  	idev = devm_iio_device_alloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct at91_adc_state));
> >  	if (!idev)
> > @@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ static int at91_adc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  
> >  	st->res = st->caps->high_res_bits;
> >  	if (st->caps->low_res_bits &&
> > -	    !of_property_read_string(node, "atmel,adc-use-res", (const char **)&s)
> > +	    !of_property_read_string(node, "atmel,adc-use-res", &s)
> >  	    && !strcmp(s, "lowres"))
> >  		st->res = st->caps->low_res_bits;
> >  
> > 
> > ---
> > base-commit: 248951ddc14de84de3910f9b13f51491a8cd91df
> > change-id: 20260722-master-23179d7c00c4
> > 
> > Best regards,  
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> Reviewed-by: David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>
> 
> Although perhaps could be simplified instead by using
> of_property_match_string().

Whilst I would prefer that it 'might' break a bad device tree given
the current code is a match against one of the two values.  If we start
matching explicitly against them any issues would become a probe failure.

So given it's ancient and I don't want to mess too much with it, applied
this lower risk patch.

Jonathan