linux-kernel - [PATCH] mei: pxp: Keep a const qualifier when calling mei_cldev

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Date:   Fri, 21 Jul 2023 22:26:27 +0200
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
        Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] mei: pxp: Keep a const qualifier when calling mei_cldev_send()

The API has been fixed in commit 0912ef4855e8 ("mei: constify passed
buffers and structures"), so there is no more need to drop the const
qualifier and the comment can be removed as-well.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
 drivers/misc/mei/pxp/mei_pxp.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/pxp/mei_pxp.c b/drivers/misc/mei/pxp/mei_pxp.c
index 3bf560bbdee0..2dcb9169e404 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/pxp/mei_pxp.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/pxp/mei_pxp.c
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ mei_pxp_send_message(struct device *dev, const void *message, size_t size)
 
 	cldev = to_mei_cl_device(dev);
 
-	/* temporary drop const qualifier till the API is fixed */
-	byte = mei_cldev_send(cldev, (u8 *)message, size);
+	byte = mei_cldev_send(cldev, message, size);
 	if (byte < 0) {
 		dev_dbg(dev, "mei_cldev_send failed. %zd\n", byte);
 		return byte;
-- 
2.34.1