On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 07:26 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:05 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Subrata,
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:13:23 +0530 Subrata Modak 
> > <subr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >   /* Find the TBI PHY.  If it's not there, we don't support SGMII */
> > > - ph = of_get_property(np, "tbi-handle", NULL);
> > > + ph = (phandle *)of_get_property(np, "tbi-handle", NULL);
> > 
> > You don't need this cast because of_get_property() returns "void *".
> 
> Stephen,
> 
> True. But without this gcc complains:
> 
> CC [M]  drivers/net/ucc_geth.o
> drivers/net/ucc_geth.c: In function ‘ucc_geth_probe’:
> drivers/net/ucc_geth.c:3824: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from 
> pointer target type
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^

And what does that warning actually mean?

Your cast actually introduces a bug.

cheers

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