Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix build warning

From: Guenter Roeck <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:02:09 -0700

On 06/16/2014 06:25 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
>> If compiled with W=1, the following warning is seen in powerpc builds.
>>
>> arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:750:18: warning:
>> 	type qualifiers ignored on function return type
>> static const int powerpc_smt_flags(void)
>>                   ^
>>
>> This is caused by a function returning 'const int', which doesn't
>> make sense to gcc. Drop 'const' to fix the problem.
>>
>> Reported-by: Vincent Guittot <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email-masked]>
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email-masked]>
>
> Although it's strange you report this happening on line 750 in the
> changelog but the patch shows it differently.
>

In the latest kernel (v3.16-rc1) the function is at line 750.
It appears that I ran the build test on a later version than
the one I used to write the patch. Hope that is not a problem.

Guenter