Re: [PATCH] OF: PCI: const usage needed by MIPS

[John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>]

On 30/04/12 19:54, David Daney wrote:
> On 04/30/2012 10:46 AM, John Crispin wrote:
>> On MIPS we want to call of_irq_map_pci from inside
>>
>> arch/mips/include/asm/pci.h:extern int pcibios_map_irq(
>>                 const struct pci_dev *dev, u8 slot, u8 pin);
>>
>> For this to work we need to change several functions to const usage.
>
> I think there is a mismatch on this throughout the kernel.
>
> Properly fixing it requires touching many more places than these.
> Although I haven't tried it, I wouldn't be surprised if doing this
> caused warnings to appear in non-MIPS code.
>
> Ralf had a patch at one point that tried to make this consistent
> tree-wide, but it is not yet applied.
>
> David Daney

Hi,

Ok, lets see what Ralf has to say.

I just tested the patch on x86 with OF enabled and drivers turned on
that use the API. I did not see any errors appear.

Thanks,
John