[PATCH v5 2/2] kni: fix warning about discarding const qualifier

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at xilinx.com
Wed Jun 8 14:54:10 CEST 2022


On 6/8/2022 1:11 PM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:

> 
> From: Ke Zhang <ke1x.zhang at intel.com>
> 
> The warning info:
> warning: passing argument 1 of ‘memcpy’ discards ‘const’
> qualifier from pointer target type
> 
> Variable dev_addr is done const intentionally in v5.17 to prevent using
> it directly. See kernel series [1] for more information.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/YZYAb4X%2FVQFy0iks@shredder/T/

Can you add Linux kernel commit log, instead of the mail list archive? 
This helps to check the relevant code change in kernel easier, and 
verify in which versions it exists etc..

> 
> Fixes: ea6b39b5b847 ("kni: remove ethtool support")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ke Zhang <ke1x.zhang at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at xilinx.com>



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