Hello,

[adding spi-devel-general and lkml to Cc:]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:08:53AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 
wrote:
> passing argument 2 of 'dma_map_single' discards qualifiers from pointer 
> target type
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagn...@jcrosoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c b/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c
> index 154529a..2cf6abd 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c
> @@ -352,8 +352,10 @@ atmel_spi_dma_map_xfer(struct atmel_spi *as, struct 
> spi_transfer *xfer)
>  
>       xfer->tx_dma = xfer->rx_dma = INVALID_DMA_ADDRESS;
>       if (xfer->tx_buf) {
> +             void *nonconst_tx = (void *)xfer->tx_buf; /* shut up gcc */
> +
>               xfer->tx_dma = dma_map_single(dev,
> -                             (void *) xfer->tx_buf, xfer->len,
> +                             nonconst_tx, xfer->len,
>                               DMA_TO_DEVICE);
Hmm, I wonder if this is the right approach to do this.  I'd prefer to
have something like:

        dma_map_single_to_device(struct device *, const void *, ...)

don't know if that's sensible though.

And I wonder about gcc that your patch makes a difference.

Best regards
Uwe

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