Re: IA32 (2.6.5 - 2004-04-12.22.30) - 2 New warnings (gcc 3.2.2)

[Don Koch]

> drivers/video/fbmem.c:914: warning: passing arg 1 of `copy_from_user' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

The following patch fixes the warning - the "data" field is "const"
for apparently varying definitions of the word "const" ;-).

===== fbmem.c 1.95 vs edited =====
--- 1.94/drivers/video/fbmem.c	Thu Mar 25 12:57:01 2004
+++ edited/fbmem.c	Tue Apr 13 13:17:56 2004
@@ -911,7 +911,7 @@
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 		
-		if (copy_from_user(cursor.image.data, sprite->image.data, size) ||
+		if (copy_from_user((char *)cursor.image.data, sprite->image.data, size) ||
 		    copy_from_user(cursor.mask, sprite->mask, size)) { 
 			kfree(cursor.image.data);
 			kfree(cursor.mask);


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