[PATCH] PowerPC: const intspec pointers

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Fri Dec 11 17:13:45 EST 2009


On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Roman Fietze <roman.fietze at telemotive.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Writing a driver using SCLPC on the MPC5200B I detected, that the
> intspec arrays to map irqs to Linux virq cannot be const, because the
> mapping and xlate functions only take non const pointers. All those
> functions do not modify the intspec, so a const pointer could be used.

BTW, if you're interested, there is a driver for the SCLPC FIFO about
to be merged into 2.6.33.  It's in Ben's tree waiting to be pulled
into mainline.

Cheers,
g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.


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