It's the pointer that is supposed to be const, not the return type of the function.
drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c: In function '__reserved_mem_init_node': drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c:200:7: error: type qualifiers ignored on function return type [-Werror=ignored-qualifiers] int const (*initfn)(struct reserved_mem *rmem) = i->data; Fixes: 17a70355ea57 ("of: fix sparse warnings in fdt, irq, reserved mem, and resolver code") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> --- drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c b/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c index 4dec07ea510f..3f03ec004829 100644 --- a/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c +++ b/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static int __init __reserved_mem_init_node(struct reserved_mem *rmem) const struct of_device_id *i; for (i = __reservedmem_of_table; i < &__rmem_of_table_sentinel; i++) { - int const (*initfn)(struct reserved_mem *rmem) = i->data; + int (* const initfn)(struct reserved_mem *rmem) = i->data; const char *compat = i->compatible; if (!of_flat_dt_is_compatible(rmem->fdt_node, compat)) -- 2.9.0