linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 4/7] OF: properties: Implement get_match

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Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 12:50:50 -0500
From:   Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
To:     Lothar Waßmann <LW@...O-electronics.de>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        timur@...eaurora.org, open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 4/7] OF: properties: Implement get_match_data()
 callback

On 12/7/2017 10:20 AM, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 09:45:31 -0500 Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> On 12/7/2017 8:10 AM, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
>>>> +void *of_fwnode_get_match_data(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
>>>> +			       struct device *dev)
>>> Shouldn't this be 'const void *of_fwnode_get_match_data
>>
>> OF keeps the driver data as a (const void*) internally. ACPI keeps the
>> driver data as kernel_ulong_t in struct acpi_device_id.
>>
>> I tried to find the middle ground here by converting output to void*
>> but not keeping const.
>>
> It should be no problem to cast a (const void *) to an unsigned long
> data type (without const qualifier).
> 

It is the other way around. If I change this API to return a a (const void*),
the device_get_match_data() function need to return a (const void *).

While implementing the ACPI piece, I have to convert an unsigned long to
(const void *) in ACPI code so that the APIs are compatible.

> 
> Lothar Waßmann
> 


-- 
Sinan Kaya
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.