2009/12/15 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Jan,
>
> Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced this warning:
>
> fs/quota/dquot.c: In function 'dquot_alloc_inode':
> fs/quota/dquot.c:1521: warning: passing argument 1 of 'mark_all_dquot_dirty' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> fs/quota/dquot.c:327: note: expected 'struct dquot **' but argument is of type 'struct dquot * const*'
> fs/quota/dquot.c: In function 'dquot_free_inode':
> fs/quota/dquot.c:1649: warning: passing argument 1 of 'mark_all_dquot_dirty' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> fs/quota/dquot.c:327: note: expected 'struct dquot **' but argument is of type 'struct dquot * const*'
What's why my original patch contained type casts.
In fact i dont understand why {alloc,free}_inode accept pointer to
const struct inode, it's contradicts to normal logic
Even if inode is not in a good state, quta code may and must(what's
how it designed for now) change it internals.
>
> Introduced by commit e91077e3d523c2ac2090b3447bf6244567cf7128 ("quota:
> Move duplicated code to separate functions").
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
>
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