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SubjectRe: [PATCH] warnkill trivia 2/2
>    From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:56:43 +0200
>
> 2.4.20-pre5: prevent sparc32's atomic_read() from possibly discarding
> const qualifiers from pointers passed as its argument.
>
> -static __inline__ int atomic_read(atomic_t *v)
> +static __inline__ int atomic_read(const atomic_t *v)
>
> So the atomic_t is const is it? That's news to me.
>
> I think you mean something like "atomic_t const * v" which means the
> pointer is constant, not the value.

Precisely.


diff -u linux-2.4.20-pre5/include/asm-sparc/atomic.h linux-2.4.20-pre5.n/include/asm-sparc/atomic.h
--- linux-2.4.20-pre5/include/asm-sparc/atomic.h 2001-11-08 17:42:19.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.4.20-pre5.n/include/asm-sparc/atomic.h 2002-09-01 12:29:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@

#define ATOMIC_INIT(i) { (i << 8) }

-static __inline__ int atomic_read(atomic_t *v)
+static __inline__ int atomic_read(atomic_t const *v)
{
int ret = v->counter;

-
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