Re: [PATCH v4 04/11] gpiolib: provide gpio_device_find_by_label()

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On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 11:44 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 04:29:24PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > By far the most common way of looking up GPIO devices is using their
> > label. Provide a helpers for that to avoid every user implementing their
> > own matching function.
>
> ...
>
> > +struct gpio_device *gpio_device_find_by_label(const char *label)
> > +{
> > +     return gpio_device_find((void *)label, gpio_chip_match_by_label);
> > +}
>
> Are we expecting that data referenced by the first parameter to the
> gpio_device_find() can be altered? If not, why not using const void *
> there and here as well?
>

I guess it's a good idea.

Bart





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