Re: [PATCH 11/12] iio: common: ssp_sensors: account for const type of of_device_id.data

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sat Jan 06 2018 - 07:23:17 EST


On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:28:07 +0100
Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This driver creates a number of const structures that it stores in the
> data field of an of_device_id array.
>
> Add const to the declaration of the location that receives a value
> from the data field to ensure that the compiler will continue to check
> that the value is not modified and remove the const-dropping cast on
> the access to the data field.
>
> Done using Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>

Thanks. Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out
as testing for the autobuilders to play with it.

Jonathan

>
> ---
> drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp.h | 2 +-
> drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp_dev.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff -u -p a/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp.h b/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp.h
> --- a/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp.h
> +++ b/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp.h
> @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ struct ssp_sensorhub_info {
> */
> struct ssp_data {
> struct spi_device *spi;
> - struct ssp_sensorhub_info *sensorhub_info;
> + const struct ssp_sensorhub_info *sensorhub_info;
> struct timer_list wdt_timer;
> struct work_struct work_wdt;
> struct delayed_work work_refresh;
> diff -u -p a/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp_dev.c b/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp_dev.c
> --- a/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp_dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp_dev.c
> @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ static struct ssp_data *ssp_parse_dt(str
> if (!match)
> goto err_mcu_reset_gpio;
>
> - data->sensorhub_info = (struct ssp_sensorhub_info *)match->data;
> + data->sensorhub_info = match->data;
>
> dev_set_drvdata(dev, data);
>
>