linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel: Fix ftrace.c compiler warning when calling ftrace_nop

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Date:	Mon, 23 May 2011 09:08:34 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Eduardo Silva <edsiper@...il.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: Fix ftrace.c compiler warning when calling
 ftrace_nop_replace()

On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 18:36 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/22/2011 06:19 PM, Eduardo Silva wrote:
> > the function ftrace_nop_replace() returns a 'static const unsigned char *'
> > value, so when the caller perform a direct assignment to a
> > 'static unsigned char *', the compiler raise the following warning message:
> > 
> >  ftrace.c:308:6: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> >  ftrace.c:318:6: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> > 
> > Adding the proper casts the message goes away.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Silva <edsiper@...il.com>
> 
> This quiets a warning of something that potentially looks like a real
> bug.  Perhaps "new" should be const?

Although there is no real bug here, I hate these "hide the warning"
patches.

The real solution is to change all the users into const *. This should
be doable as the new and old pointers are not modified.

And remember:

	char *changes;
	const char *no_changes;

	no_changes = changes;  /* is OK! (no compiler warnings) */

	changes = no_changes; /* is not OK. (compiler will warn). */

-- Steve


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