RE: drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c:134:41: warning: passing argument 1 of 'thermal_cooling_device_register' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type

From: Ryder Lee (李庚諺)
Date: Fri Aug 13 2021 - 04:42:49 EST



The cause is https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ABDAFCAB-8DF5-41A7-B1E0-4953A9BF32B3@xxxxxxxxx/T/


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Subject: drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c:134:41: warning: passing argument 1 of 'thermal_cooling_device_register' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type

Hi Ryder,

FYI, the error/warning still remains.

tree: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git__;!!CTRNKA9wMg0ARbw!1yGhyZ2zcgDSAZInyFCpTWQq7wm0KK7MwoYWKEME_DrayfcYfxh4i9dnufVN9C-c$ master
head: f8e6dfc64f6135d1b6c5215c14cd30b9b60a0008
commit: 34b877d972bec8cbf397a57393317672cf92996f mt76: mt7915: add thermal cooling device support
date: 8 weeks ago
config: x86_64-buildonly-randconfig-r001-20210812 (attached as .config)
compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-22) 9.3.0
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
# https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=34b877d972bec8cbf397a57393317672cf92996f__;!!CTRNKA9wMg0ARbw!1yGhyZ2zcgDSAZInyFCpTWQq7wm0KK7MwoYWKEME_DrayfcYfxh4i9dnueYlmjdK$
git remote add linus https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git__;!!CTRNKA9wMg0ARbw!1yGhyZ2zcgDSAZInyFCpTWQq7wm0KK7MwoYWKEME_DrayfcYfxh4i9dnufVN9C-c$
git fetch --no-tags linus master
git checkout 34b877d972bec8cbf397a57393317672cf92996f
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
make W=1 ARCH=x86_64

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c: In function 'mt7915_thermal_init':
>> drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c:134:41: warning:
>> passing argument 1 of 'thermal_cooling_device_register' discards
>> 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
134 | cdev = thermal_cooling_device_register(wiphy_name(wiphy), phy,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c:7:
include/linux/thermal.h:407:39: note: expected 'char *' but argument is of type 'const char *'
407 | thermal_cooling_device_register(char *type, void *devdata,
| ~~~~~~^~~~


vim +134 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c

127
128 static int mt7915_thermal_init(struct mt7915_phy *phy)
129 {
130 struct wiphy *wiphy = phy->mt76->hw->wiphy;
131 struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev;
132 struct device *hwmon;
133
> 134 cdev = thermal_cooling_device_register(wiphy_name(wiphy), phy,
135 &mt7915_thermal_ops);
136 if (!IS_ERR(cdev)) {
137 if (sysfs_create_link(&wiphy->dev.kobj, &cdev->device.kobj,
138 "cooling_device") < 0)
139 thermal_cooling_device_unregister(cdev);
140 else
141 phy->cdev = cdev;
142 }
143
144 if (!IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_HWMON))
145 return 0;
146
147 hwmon = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups(&wiphy->dev,
148 wiphy_name(wiphy), phy,
149 mt7915_hwmon_groups);
150 if (IS_ERR(hwmon))
151 return PTR_ERR(hwmon);
152
153 return 0;
154 }
155

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