linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] firmware_class: Split _request

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:21:38 -0700
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] firmware_class: Split _request_firmware() into three
 functions

On 03/26/12 11:15, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 03/25/12 15:01, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>  drivers/base/firmware_class.c |   57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>>
>> Index: linux/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux.orig/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
>> +++ linux/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
>> @@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static void firmware_class_timeout(u_lon
>>  }
>>  
>>  static struct firmware_priv *
>> -fw_create_instance(struct firmware *firmware, const char *fw_name,
>> +fw_create_instance(const struct firmware *firmware, const char *fw_name,
>>  		   struct device *device, bool uevent, bool nowait)
>>  {
>>  	struct firmware_priv *fw_priv;
>> @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ fw_create_instance(struct firmware *firm
>>  		goto err_out;
>>  	}
>>  
>> -	fw_priv->fw = firmware;
>> +	fw_priv->fw = (struct firmware *)firmware;
>>  	fw_priv->nowait = nowait;
>>  	strcpy(fw_priv->fw_id, fw_name);
>>  	init_completion(&fw_priv->completion);
> Can we avoid this cast? If we do some parts of fw_create_instance()
> during the setup phase I think we can avoid it.
>

Oops. With the other patch you can squash this in to do what I
originally talked about.

-----8<-----
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index fbe98a8..113d37d 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static void firmware_class_timeout(u_long data)
 }
 
 static struct firmware_priv *
-fw_create_instance(const struct firmware *firmware, const char *fw_name,
+fw_create_instance(struct firmware *firmware, const char *fw_name,
                   struct device *device, bool uevent, bool nowait)
 {
        struct firmware_priv *fw_priv;
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ fw_create_instance(const struct firmware *firmware, const char *fw_name,
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
        }
 
-       fw_priv->fw = (struct firmware *)firmware;
+       fw_priv->fw = firmware;
        fw_priv->nowait = nowait;
        strcpy(fw_priv->fw_id, fw_name);
        init_completion(&fw_priv->completion);


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