Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 01/19] ARM: Make the argument to virt_to_phys() "const volatile" | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:00:10 +0100 |
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On Monday 24 January 2011, Stephen Boyd wrote: > On 01/24/2011 09:55 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > Changing the virt_to_phys() argument to "const volatile void *" avoids > > compiler warnings in some situations where this function is used. > > > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> > > Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> > > Any chance we can get this one patch into 2.6.38? It fixes a warning for > MSM.
Stephen, you might want to have a look at why the warning even appears on MSM. Most uses of 'volatile' are misguided, and there could be an actual bug in there.
Arnd
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