Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re:[BUILD FAILURE 04/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/net/ucc_geth.o] | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Date | Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:03:11 +1000 |
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On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 07:26 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > 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@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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 ‘ucc_geth_probe’: > drivers/net/ucc_geth.c:3824: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type ^^^^^^^^^^^
And what does that warning actually mean?
Your cast actually introduces a bug.
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