netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Fix compiler warning.

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.01.0912110022440.10311@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:23:40 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	chavey@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	akpm@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Fix compiler warning.


On Donnerstag 2009-12-10 23:08, David Miller wrote:
>> 
>>>Fix compiler warning "discards qualifiers from pointer target type",
>>>by allowing explicit discard of const qualifier thru type casting.
>>>The const_cast() macro is taken from a patch from Kaveh R. Ghazi
>> 
>> Uhm, I am not getting any warning on xt_time with either gcc-4.4.1
>> or gcc-4.5_20091126, so what case are we actually trying to fix?
>
>I get this warning with gcc-4.3.x all the time.

Ok. Still, assuming it was a "bug" which got fixed in gcc-4.4,
should we really bother with it anymore? (Thankfully it's just
a warning, and not an error.)
If so, we can probably do better code-wise.
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