linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: remove duplicate 'const' annotations'

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Date:   Thu, 11 May 2017 10:20:01 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, arm@...nel.org
Cc:     Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>,
        Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        Krzysztof Halasa <khalasa@...p.pl>,
        Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@...eaurora.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Viresh Kumar <vireshk@...nel.org>,
        Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@...el.com>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: remove duplicate 'const' annotations'

On 05/11/2017 04:50 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> gcc-7 warns about some declarations that are more 'const' than necessary:
> 
> arch/arm/mach-at91/pm.c:338:34: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier]
>  static const struct of_device_id const ramc_ids[] __initconst = {
> arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c:36:34: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier]
>  static const struct of_device_id const bcm_kona_smc_ids[] __initconst = {
> arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c:207:34: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier]
>  static const struct of_device_id const timer_of_match[] __initconst = {
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/prm_common.c:714:34: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier]
>  static const struct of_device_id const omap_prcm_dt_match_table[] __initconst = {
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/vc.c:562:35: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier]
>  static const struct i2c_init_data const omap4_i2c_timing_data[] __initconst = {
> 
> The ones in arch/arm were apparently all introduced accidentally by one
> commit that correctly marked a lot of variables as __initconst.
> 
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>
> Fixes: 19c233b79d1a ("ARM: appropriate __init annotation for const data")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---

>  arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c | 2 +-

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian