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Date:   Thu, 5 Nov 2020 15:27:52 -0800
From:   Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 16/18] efi: Update implementation of add_links() to
 create fwnode links

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:42 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 03:23:53PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > The semantics of add_links() has changed from creating device link
> > between devices to creating fwnode links between fwnodes. So, update the
> > implementation of add_links() to match the new semantics.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c | 23 ++---------------------
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c
> > index b148f1459fb3..c0c3d4c3837a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c
> > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c
> > @@ -316,11 +316,10 @@ static struct device_node *find_pci_overlap_node(void)
> >   * resource reservation conflict on the memory window that the efifb
> >   * framebuffer steals from the PCIe host bridge.
> >   */
> > -static int efifb_add_links(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
> > +static int efifb_add_links(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
> >                          struct device *dev)
>
> So you are fixing the build warning you added a few patches ago here?
> Please fix up the function signatures when you made that change, not
> here later on.

I'm trying not to have a mega patcht that changes a lot of code.

I guess I can drop this "const" diff from this patch and then merge it
with the earlier patch that removes the const. But still leave the
rest of the changes in this patch as is. Does that work for you?

-Saravana