On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 07:26 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:05 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Subrata,
> >
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:13:23 +0530 Subrata Modak <subrata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > /* Find the TBI PHY. If it's not there, we don't support SGMII */
> > > - ph = of_get_property(np, "tbi-handle", NULL);
> > > + ph = (phandle *)of_get_property(np, "tbi-handle", NULL);
> >
> > You don't need this cast because of_get_property() returns "void *".
>
> Stephen,
>
> True. But without this gcc complains:
>
> CC [M] drivers/net/ucc_geth.o
> drivers/net/ucc_geth.c: In function ‘ucc_geth_probe’:
> drivers/net/ucc_geth.c:3824: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
^^^^^^^^^^^
And what does that warning actually mean?
Your cast actually introduces a bug.
cheers
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