Re: drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-ns.c:286:10: error: passing 'const char *const *const' to parameter of type 'const char **' discards qualifiers

From: Rafał Miłecki
Date: Thu Dec 23 2021 - 04:23:53 EST


On 22.12.2021 23:55, kernel test robot wrote:
tree: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/UPDATE-20211222-144502/Rafa-Mi-ecki/pinctrl-bcm-ns-use-generic-groups-functions-helpers/20211117-064419
head: da7c70cdea1466b4234a30658ee2b5383545a629
commit: da7c70cdea1466b4234a30658ee2b5383545a629 pinctrl: bcm: ns: use generic groups & functions helpers
date: 16 hours ago
config: riscv-randconfig-r042-20211222 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20211223/202112230616.y4Aa2Lyi-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: clang version 14.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project de4e0195ae1c39f1c3b07834b8e32c113f4f20eb)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
# install riscv cross compiling tool for clang build
# apt-get install binutils-riscv64-linux-gnu
# https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/da7c70cdea1466b4234a30658ee2b5383545a629
git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
git fetch --no-tags linux-review UPDATE-20211222-144502/Rafa-Mi-ecki/pinctrl-bcm-ns-use-generic-groups-functions-helpers/20211117-064419
git checkout da7c70cdea1466b4234a30658ee2b5383545a629
# save the config file to linux build tree
mkdir build_dir
COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=riscv SHELL=/bin/bash

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

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-ns.c:286:10: error: passing 'const char *const *const' to parameter of type 'const char **' discards qualifiers [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
function->groups,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/pinctrl/bcm/../pinmux.h:153:18: note: passing argument to parameter 'groups' here
const char **groups,
^
1 error generated.

You are testing this patch against wrong tree. See message in my commit:

V3: Don't drop "const" from "ns_pinctrl_function" @groups. It's possible
thanks to the commit bd0aae66c482 ("pinctrl: add one more "const" for
generic function groups").
This patch depends on above commit for that reason.