Hi Michael,
>On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:03 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>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 <[email protected]> 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.
>
Ok fine. Here is a revised patch.
Subject: [PATCH][Resend][BUILD FAILURE 04/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/net/ucc_geth.o]
Reference(s):
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/4/241,
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/10/338,
Fix the following build error:
drivers/net/ucc_geth.c: In function bucc_geth_probeb:
drivers/net/ucc_geth.c:3822: error: 'ph' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/net/ucc_geth.c:3822: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/net/ucc_geth.c:3822: error: for each function it appears in.)
drivers/net/ucc_geth.c:3832: error: 'mdio' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [drivers/net/ucc_geth.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Subrata Modak <[email protected]>
---
--- linux-2.6.30-rc8/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c.orig 2009-06-10 11:58:39.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.30-rc8/drivers/net/ucc_geth.c 2009-06-10 20:53:25.000000000 -0500
@@ -3595,6 +3595,8 @@ static const struct net_device_ops ucc_g
static int ucc_geth_probe(struct of_device* ofdev, const struct of_device_id *match)
{
+ struct device_node *mdio;
+ phandle *ph;
struct device *device = &ofdev->dev;
struct device_node *np = ofdev->node;
struct net_device *dev = NULL;
---
Regards--
Subrata
> cheers