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Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2012 10:00:34 +0000
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the akpm tree

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> After merging the akpm tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allnoconfig - among others) produced this warning:
>
> drivers/of/fdt.c: In function 'of_scan_flat_dt':
> drivers/of/fdt.c:490:10: warning: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
>
> Introduced by commit "drivers/of/fdt.c: re-use kernel's kbasename()".

Adding this hunk to the patch fixes it:

diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
index 91a375f..738228f 100644
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ int __init of_scan_flat_dt(int (*it)(unsigned long node,

        do {
                u32 tag = be32_to_cpup((__be32 *)p);
-               char *pathp;
+               const char *pathp;

                p += 4;
                if (tag == OF_DT_END_NODE) {

g.
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