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SubjectRe: [PATCH 07/12] i2c: rk3x: account for const type of of_device_id.data
On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 02:28:03PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> This driver creates a number of const structures that it stores in
> the data field of an of_device_id array.
>
> The data field of an of_device_id structure has type const void *, so
> there is no need for a const-discarding cast when putting const values
> into such a structure.
>
> Furthermore, adding const to the declaration of the location that
> receives a const value from such a field ensures that the compiler
> will continue to check that the value is not modified. The
> const-discarding cast on the extraction from the data field is thus
> no longer needed.
>
> Done using Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
>

Applied to for-next, thanks!

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