linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: Constify (de)compression parameters

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Date:	Fri, 1 May 2015 11:21:25 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: Constify (de)compression parameters

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 03:36:30PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> In testmgr, struct pcomp_testvec takes a non-const 'params' field, which is
> pointed to a const deflate_comp_params or deflate_decomp_params object.  With
> gcc-5 this incurs the following warnings:
> 
> In file included from ../crypto/testmgr.c:44:0:
> ../crypto/testmgr.h:28736:13: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-array-qualifiers]
>    .params = &deflate_comp_params,
>              ^
> ../crypto/testmgr.h:28748:13: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-array-qualifiers]
>    .params = &deflate_comp_params,
>              ^
> ../crypto/testmgr.h:28776:13: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-array-qualifiers]
>    .params = &deflate_decomp_params,
>              ^
> ../crypto/testmgr.h:28800:13: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-array-qualifiers]
>    .params = &deflate_decomp_params,
>              ^
> 
> Fix this by making the parameters pointer const and constifying the things
> that use it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>

Both patches applied.
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