Re: [patch] staging: comedi: cleanup comedi_recognize()

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On 2012-05-24 12:16, Dan Carpenter wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:57:44AM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
On 2012-05-24 11:28, Dan Carpenter wrote:
This function is more complicated than it needs to be because of the
consts.  It's not worth saving them because we drop the consts anyway
when we return (void *)name_ptr.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter<dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
index 1c3d638..a8f576d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
@@ -304,14 +304,13 @@ static int postconfig(struct comedi_device *dev)
   * that register their supported board names */
  static void *comedi_recognize(struct comedi_driver *driv, const char *name)
  {
-	unsigned i;
-	const char *const *name_ptr = driv->board_name;
+	char **name_ptr = (char **)driv->board_name;
+	int i;
+
  	for (i = 0; i<   driv->num_names; i++) {
  		if (strcmp(*name_ptr, name) == 0)
-			return (void *)name_ptr;
-		name_ptr =
-		    (const char *const *)((const char *)name_ptr +
-					  driv->offset);
+			return name_ptr;
+		name_ptr = (char **)((void *)name_ptr + driv->offset);
  	}

  	return NULL;

You could simplify it further by keeping one of the consts:

static void *comedi_recognize(struct comedi_driver *driv, const char *name)
{
	unsigned i;
	const char **name_ptr = driv->board_name;
	for (i = 0; i<  driv->num_names; i++) {
		if (strcmp(*name_ptr, name) == 0)
			return name_ptr;
		name_ptr = (void *)name_ptr + driv->offset;
	}
	return NULL;
}

Sure.  I'll resend.

Actually, my version gives a warning about a dropped qualifier, so the initializer of name_ptr would need a cast after all. You could keep your version but remove the casts from (void *) when converting to the other pointer types.

static void *comedi_recognize(struct comedi_driver *driv, const char *name)
{
	unsigned i;
	char **name_ptr = (char **)driv->board_name;
	for (i = 0; i < driv->num_names; i++) {
		if (strcmp(*name_ptr, name) == 0)
			return name_ptr;
		name_ptr = (void *)name_ptr + driv->offset;
	}

	return NULL;
}

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