On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:46:04 +1100, Michael Neuling <mi...@neuling.org> wrote: > > Neither of these should ever be changed once set. Make them const and > > fix up the users that try to modify it in-place. In one case > > kmalloc+memcpy is replaced with kstrdup() to avoid modifying the string. > > > > Build tested with defconfigs on ARM, PowerPC, Sparc, MIPS, x86 among > > others. > > Grant, > > This breaks powerpc chroma_defconfig in next-20121127 with: > > arch/powerpc/sysdev/scom.c:160:17: error: assignment discards 'const' > qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror] > > The following fixes it. The change is to generic code, so I'm not sure > it's the right fix as it may break other configs/archs.
That is rather risky. Post it as a patch to core code, but in the mean time I'll patch the powerpc scom code. g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
