Re: [PATCH 1/1] hwmon: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions

[Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/11/23 1:03 PM, Ammar Faizi wrote:
> On 1/11/23 10:29 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 1/10/23 18:07, XU pengfei wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c b/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c
> > > index f77dc6db31ac..501337ee5aa3 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c
> > > @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static umode_t
> > >   powr1220_is_visible(const void *data, enum hwmon_sensor_types type, u32
> > >               attr, int channel)
> > >   {
> > > -    struct powr1220_data *chip_data = (struct powr1220_data *)data;
> > > +    struct powr1220_data *chip_data = data;
>
> This is wrong. That cast is needed to discard the "const".
>
>    CC [M]  drivers/hwmon/powr1220.o
> drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c: In function ‘powr1220_is_visible’:
> drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c:177:43: error: initialization discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
>    177 |         struct powr1220_data *chip_data = data;
>        |                                           ^~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Anyway, powr1220_is_visible() doesn't write via that pointer, but
the local variable needs to be a const as well.

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c b/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c
index f77dc6db31ac..7cbbed5a6f5e 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static umode_t
 powr1220_is_visible(const void *data, enum hwmon_sensor_types type, u32
                    attr, int channel)
 {
-       struct powr1220_data *chip_data = (struct powr1220_data *)data;
+       const struct powr1220_data *chip_data = data;
 
        if (channel >= chip_data->max_channels)
                return 0;


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Ammar Faizi