On 06/27/2017 10:21 PM, Cyrille Pitchen wrote: > Le 27/06/2017 à 21:51, Marek Vasut a écrit : >> On 06/27/2017 09:48 PM, Cyrille Pitchen wrote: >>> Le 27/06/2017 à 18:11, Marek Vasut a écrit : >>>> On 06/27/2017 05:34 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>>>> The variable was already marked 'const' before the previous >>>>> patch, but the qualifier was in an unusual place, and now the >>>>> extra 'const' causes a harmless warning: >>>>> >>>>> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c:1286:34: error: duplicate 'const' >>>>> declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier] >>>>> >>>>> This removes the other 'const' instead. >>>> >>>> Isn't that const array const elements , thus two consts ? >>>> IMO the original code is correct. >>> >>> Indeed the 2 'const' don't have the same meaning so the original code >>> may be correct but with an array like cqspi_dt_ids[] we can't write >>> "cqspi_dt_ids = (const struct of_device_id *)<right value>;" anyway. >> >> Not sure I understand what you're trying to say here. >> > > Just that once an array like cqspi_dt_ids[] has been defined, you can > never assign it a new value later: > > cqspi_dt_ids = <new value>; /* that doesn't work */ > > For this specific point, an array behaves like a constant pointer (but > otherwise I agree that arrays and constant pointers are not the same > things). So I guess the 2nd 'const' could be considered as implicit :)
I had to think about this a little and I think what you're getting at is something slightly different. IIUC if this was array of pointers (which it is not), you'd need this const Type *const name[] , but since this is array of Type , you can do with const Type name[] and the whole thing is implicitly const. But in that case: Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marek.va...@gmail.com> >>> So I think the 2nd 'const' is useless here then if this patch removes a >>> warning, let's apply it, right? >>> >>>> >>>>> Fixes: f993c123b461 ("mtd: spi-nor: cqspi: make of_device_ids const") >>>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> >>>>> --- >>>>> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c | 2 +- >>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>>> >>>>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c >>>>> b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c >>>>> index d315c326e72f..53c7d8e0327a 100644 >>>>> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c >>>>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c >>>>> @@ -1283,7 +1283,7 @@ static const struct dev_pm_ops cqspi__dev_pm_ops = { >>>>> #define CQSPI_DEV_PM_OPS NULL >>>>> #endif >>>>> >>>>> -static const struct of_device_id const cqspi_dt_ids[] = { >>>>> +static const struct of_device_id cqspi_dt_ids[] = { >>>>> {.compatible = "cdns,qspi-nor",}, >>>>> { /* end of table */ } >>>>> }; >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > -- Best regards, Marek Vasut