Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the driver-core.current tree

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:45:25 -0700

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 04:43:47PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:35:34AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Grant,
> > 
> > After merging the driver-core.current tree, today's linux-next build
> > (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced this warning:
> > 
> > drivers/base/firmware_class.c: In function 'release_firmware':
> > drivers/base/firmware_class.c:597: warning: passing argument 1 of 'firmware_free_data' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> > drivers/base/firmware_class.c:133: note: expected 'struct firmware *' but argument is of type 'const struct firmware *'
> > 
> > Introduced by commit 6454d23dedf4019fcae868818ae63c755dd42be0
> > ("firmware_class: fix memory leak - free allocated pages").
> 
> Thanks, I've fixed this up, the release call should not have 'const'
> on it as it is going to touch the pointer passed to it :)

And it's now pushed out in my tree.

thanks,

greg k-h