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Re: [PATCH] serial-uartlite: fix build warning

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Maarten Brock <m.brock@vanmierlo.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven [mailto:geert@linux-m68k.org]
> To: Sudip Mukherjee [mailto:sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com]
> Cc: Peter Korsgaard [mailto:jacmet@sunsite.dk], Greg Kroah-Hartman [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org], Jiri Slaby [mailto:jslaby@suse.com], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org], linux-serial@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-serial@vger.kernel.org]
> Sent: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:48:06 +0100
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial-uartlite: fix build warning
>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
>> <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > We were getting build warnings about:
>> > drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c: In function ‘ulite_request_port’:
>> > drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c:348:21: warning: assignment discards
>> >         'const' qualifier from pointer target type
>> > port->private_data = &uartlite_be;
>> >                      ^
>> > drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c:354:22: warning: assignment discards
>> >         'const' qualifier from pointer target type
>> > port->private_data = &uartlite_le;
>> >                       ^
>> >
>> > Fixes: 2905697a82ea ("serial-uartlite: Constify uartlite_be/uartlite_le")
>> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
>>
>> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
>
> Reverting is not the same as fixing.
>
> Rant:
> It is a stupid warning IMHO, but being a compiler writer myself (SDCC) I
> understand how it can arise. If you assign some const pointer to a void
> pointer without an explicit cast gcc does not complain about the complete
> loss of type, but it does warn about losing constness. In general I'd say:
> make up your mind; either warn about both or don't warn about either.

You're right, I was a bit too hasty adding my Acked-by.

Hereby I would like to withdraw my Acked-by.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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                                -- Linus Torvalds

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Re: [PATCH] serial-uartlite: fix build warning "Maarten Brock" <m.brock@vanmierlo.com> - 2016-03-18 18:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] serial-uartlite: fix build warning Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2016-03-18 20:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] serial-uartlite: fix build warning Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-18 21:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] serial-uartlite: fix build warning Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-03-18 20:30 +0100

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