Re: [PATCH] Re:[BUILD FAILURE 04/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig[drivers/net/ucc_geth.o]

From: Nathan Lynch
Date: Wed Jun 10 2009 - 22:28:59 EST


Subrata Modak <subrata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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 âucc_geth_probeâ:
> drivers/net/ucc_geth.c:3824: warning: assignment discards qualifiers
> from pointer target type

ph should be declared const phandle *. Look at other uses of
of_get_property.

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