[PATCH] Re:[BUILD FAILURE 04/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/net/ucc_geth.o]

Nathan Lynch ntl at pobox.com
Thu Jun 11 12:28:30 EST 2009


Subrata Modak <subrata at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:05 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi Subrata,
>> 
>> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:13:23 +0530 Subrata Modak <subrata at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >  	/* Find the TBI PHY.  If it's not there, we don't support SGMII */
>> > -	ph = of_get_property(np, "tbi-handle", NULL);
>> > +	ph = (phandle *)of_get_property(np, "tbi-handle", NULL);
>> 
>> You don't need this cast because of_get_property() returns "void *".
>
> Stephen,
>
> True. But without this gcc complains:
>
> CC [M]  drivers/net/ucc_geth.o
> drivers/net/ucc_geth.c: In function ‘ucc_geth_probe’:
> drivers/net/ucc_geth.c:3824: warning: assignment discards qualifiers
> from pointer target type

ph should be declared const phandle *.  Look at other uses of
of_get_property.



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