On Friday, June 17, 2016 10:26:38 AM CEST Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:53:11PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > The recently-added ks7010 driver produces an annoying build warning: > > > > drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_config.c: In function > > 'ks_wlan_read_config_file': > > drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_config.c:263:8: error: assignment discards > > 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers] > > > > The problem here is that it assigns the firmware data to a non-const > > variable, and then goes on to modify it, which is clearly not the intended > > use case. > > > > The only modification is to set the last byte to '\0', and as far as > > I can tell, this modification is unnecessary, as the parser always compares > > against the end pointer, rather than relying on zero-termination. > > > > This patch therefore removes the modification of the const data and marks > > all the pointers 'const to avoid the warning. > > > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> > > Thanks! I'll send in a second a patch, though, which removes the config > file handling completely.
Ok, perfect! Arnd _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel