Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 May 2011 12:57:42 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] wireless: Make and use const struct ieee80211_channel |
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On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:10:21AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:19 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 03:21:47PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 14:49 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > > > These patches generated a lot of warnings in net/mac80211. Did you > > > > actually build them? > > > Yes. > > > Did you apply patch 1/2 first? > > > It's a dependent patch. > > That's the one that cause most of the warnings... > > Consider the 2 patches as a single patch. > Do you have new build warnings after applying both > patches 1 and 2?
Yes, of course.
CC [M] net/mac80211/scan.o net/mac80211/scan.c: In function ‘ieee80211_scan_state_decision’: net/mac80211/scan.c:509:12: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type net/mac80211/scan.c: In function ‘ieee80211_scan_state_set_channel’: net/mac80211/scan.c:610:7: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type CC [M] net/mac80211/offchannel.o CC [M] net/mac80211/ht.o CC [M] net/mac80211/agg-tx.o CC [M] net/mac80211/agg-rx.o CC [M] net/mac80211/ibss.o net/mac80211/ibss.c: In function ‘ieee80211_sta_join_ibss’: net/mac80211/ibss.c:250:7: warning: passing argument 4 of ‘__ieee80211_sta_join_ibss’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type net/mac80211/ibss.c:64:13: note: expected ‘struct ieee80211_channel *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct ieee80211_channel *’ net/mac80211/ibss.c: In function ‘ieee80211_ibss_join’: net/mac80211/ibss.c:918:24: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type net/mac80211/ibss.c:923:30: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type CC [M] net/mac80211/mlme.o net/mac80211/mlme.c: In function ‘ieee80211_mgd_auth’: net/mac80211/mlme.c:2350:11: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type net/mac80211/mlme.c: In function ‘ieee80211_mgd_assoc’: net/mac80211/mlme.c:2500:11: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type CC [M] net/mac80211/work.o CC [M] net/mac80211/iface.o CC [M] net/mac80211/rate.o CC [M] net/mac80211/tkip.o CC [M] net/mac80211/aes_ccm.o CC [M] net/mac80211/aes_cmac.o CC [M] net/mac80211/cfg.o net/mac80211/cfg.c:2083:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type net/mac80211/cfg.c:2101:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type net/mac80211/cfg.c:2103:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type CC [M] net/mac80211/rx.o
commit 07daa458f14226deff1e464f594a44111168e7ee Author: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Date: Thu Apr 28 22:25:08 2011 -0700
wireless: Use const struct ieee80211_channel where possible Make some structure uses const. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
commit 5c9adfae8855fc744f77b24df322060a7117c521 Author: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Date: Thu Apr 28 22:25:07 2011 -0700
wireless: Make struct ieee80211_channel const where possible Useful for declarations of static const. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
<commits were temporary, not applied now>
I'm dropping these patches -- feel free to repost if/when the warnings disappear.
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