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

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Message-ID: <4B263B82.4@trash.net>
Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:20:02 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, 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.

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Donnerstag 2009-12-10 23:08, David Miller wrote:
>>> On Donnerstag 2009-12-10 22:44, chavey@...gle.com 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.
> 
> Seems they fixed it in gcc-4.3 too?
> 
> 00:41 borg:~/code/linux > make net/netfilter/xt_time.o -j8 CC=gcc-4.3

Yes, I haven't seen it for a long time either, currently using
gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-6) and gcc version 4.4.1
(Debian 4.4.1-3)

I don't think we need to bother with this.
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