linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] ASoC: Remove 'const' from the device

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Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:13:51 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@...e.fr>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ASoC: Remove 'const' from the device_node pointers

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:14:48PM +0100, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> As Russell King's explained it, there should not be pointers to
> struct device_node:
> 
> "struct device_node is a ref-counted structure.  That means if you
>  store a reference to it, you should "get" it, and you should "put"
>  it once you've done.  The act of "put"ing the pointed-to structure
>  involves writing to that structure, so it is totally unappropriate
>  to store a device_node structure as a const pointer.  It forces you
>  to have to cast it back to a non-const pointer at various points
>  in time to use various OF function calls."

So, we're not holding references here (we're just doing comparisons, the
references need to be owned before we get into the core) and I'm not
seeing anything here removing casts?

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