Patch "net: ag71xx: fix discards 'const' qualifier warning" has been added to the 5.19-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net: ag71xx: fix discards 'const' qualifier warning

to the 5.19-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-ag71xx-fix-discards-const-qualifier-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.19 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.



commit b600894241a4796cd61872c25e53ec7ce3cbb89f
Author: Oleksij Rempel <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Jun 16 13:37:24 2022 +0200

    net: ag71xx: fix discards 'const' qualifier warning
    
    [ Upstream commit 225b0ed27e6ac523e5e98e7395392446859c7f20 ]
    
    Current kernel will compile this driver with warnings. This patch will
    fix it.
    
    drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c: In function 'ag71xx_fast_reset':
    drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c:996:31: warning: passing argument 2 of 'ag71xx_hw_set
    _macaddr' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
      996 |  ag71xx_hw_set_macaddr(ag, dev->dev_addr);
          |                            ~~~^~~~~~~~~~
    drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c:951:69: note: expected 'unsigned char *' but argument
     is of type 'const unsigned char *'
      951 | static void ag71xx_hw_set_macaddr(struct ag71xx *ag, unsigned char *mac)
          |                                                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~
    drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c: In function 'ag71xx_open':
    drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c:1441:32: warning: passing argument 2 of 'ag71xx_hw_se
    t_macaddr' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
     1441 |  ag71xx_hw_set_macaddr(ag, ndev->dev_addr);
          |                            ~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
    drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c:951:69: note: expected 'unsigned char *' but argument
     is of type 'const unsigned char *'
      951 | static void ag71xx_hw_set_macaddr(struct ag71xx *ag, unsigned char *mac)
          |                                                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~
    
    Fixes: adeef3e32146 ("net: constify netdev->dev_addr")
    Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c
index cac509708e9d..1c6ea6766aa1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ static unsigned int ag71xx_max_frame_len(unsigned int mtu)
 	return ETH_HLEN + VLAN_HLEN + mtu + ETH_FCS_LEN;
 }
 
-static void ag71xx_hw_set_macaddr(struct ag71xx *ag, unsigned char *mac)
+static void ag71xx_hw_set_macaddr(struct ag71xx *ag, const unsigned char *mac)
 {
 	u32 t;
 



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