On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 12:44:29PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <ge...@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > With gcc-4.1.2:
> >
> > drivers/thermal/hisi_thermal.c: In function ‘hisi_thermal_probe’:
> > drivers/thermal/hisi_thermal.c:530: warning: type qualifiers ignored on
> > function return type
> >
> > Remove the "const" keyword to fix this.
> >
> > Fixes: a160a465297362c5 ("thermal/drivers/hisi: Prepare to add support for
> > other hisi platforms")
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>
>
> For future reference, this kind of warning shows up with gcc-4.2 as
> well, but not with
> gcc-4.3 or higher. I think in this case, both gcc and sparse fail to
Yeah, this is correct. I do not see the same warn while using gcc-4.8.
> provide helpful
> feedback, but the code is probably better done using either a typedef
> for the function
> type, or with a structure containing the function pointer.
I agree.
>
> Arnd
