linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 3/7] device property: Introduce a common API to fetch device match data

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Date:   Fri, 8 Dec 2017 00:06:42 +0200
From:   Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@....fi>
To:     Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, timur@...eaurora.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@...asonboard.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 3/7] device property: Introduce a common API to fetch
 device match data

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 03:17:52PM -0500, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 12/7/2017 7:40 AM, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 12:04:48PM -0500, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> >> @@ -101,6 +103,8 @@ struct fwnode_operations {
> >>  	(*graph_get_port_parent)(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode);
> >>  	int (*graph_parse_endpoint)(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
> >>  				    struct fwnode_endpoint *endpoint);
> >> +	void *(*get_match_data)(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
> >> +				struct device *dev);
> > 
> > You can make dev const, too.
> > 
> 
> done, I couldn't change device_get_match_data() parameter const due to
> dev_fwnode() function.
> 
>                  from /local/mnt/workspace/projects/caf/kernel/drivers/base/property.c:13:
> 
> /local/mnt/workspace/projects/caf/kernel/drivers/base/property.c:1341:39: warning: passing argument 1 of 'dev_fwnode' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
>   return fwnode_call_ptr_op(dev_fwnode(dev), device_get_match_data,

Right. Makes sense.

I guess it's not perhaps worth it introducing dev_fwnode_const just for
this. devices are seldom if ever const anyway.

-- 
Sakari Ailus
e-mail: sakari.ailus@....fi