This was noticed because sbmac_string is passed to platform_device_register_simple() which now takes a "const char *" as it first argument. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) This has not even been compiled, but is fairly trivial. diff --git a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c index 7b53d65..d83471a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c @@ -350,10 +350,10 @@ static int sbmac_mii_write(struct mii_bus *bus, int phyaddr, int regidx, * Globals ********************************************************************* */ -static char sbmac_string[] = "sb1250-mac"; -static char sbmac_pretty[] = "SB1250 MAC"; +static const char sbmac_string[] = "sb1250-mac"; +static const char sbmac_pretty[] = "SB1250 MAC"; -static char sbmac_mdio_string[] = "sb1250-mac-mdio"; +static const char sbmac_mdio_string[] = "sb1250-mac-mdio"; /********************************************************************** -- 1.5.3.8 -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/