On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 15:02 -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:19:23AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
[]
> > __always_inline instead of inline
> > static __always_inline void prefetch_lines(const void *addr, size_t len)
> > {
> >     const void *end = addr + len;
> > ...
> > 
> > buff doesn't need a void * cast in prefetch_lines
> > 
> Actually I take back what I said here, we do need the cast, not for a 
> conversion
> from unsigned char * to void *, but rather to discard the const qualifier
> without making the compiler complain.

Not if the function is changed to const void *
and end is also const void * as shown.


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