Re: [PATCH 1/1] hwmon: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions

From: Ammar Faizi
Date: Wed Jan 11 2023 - 01:04:05 EST


On 1/11/23 10:29 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On 1/10/23 18:07, XU pengfei wrote:
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c b/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c
index f77dc6db31ac..501337ee5aa3 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static umode_t
  powr1220_is_visible(const void *data, enum hwmon_sensor_types type, u32
              attr, int channel)
  {
-    struct powr1220_data *chip_data = (struct powr1220_data *)data;
+    struct powr1220_data *chip_data = data;

This is wrong. That cast is needed to discard the "const".

CC [M] drivers/hwmon/powr1220.o
drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c: In function ‘powr1220_is_visible’:
drivers/hwmon/powr1220.c:177:43: error: initialization discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
177 | struct powr1220_data *chip_data = data;
| ^~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

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Ammar Faizi