Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] tty: serial: samsung: constify s3c24xx_serial_drv_data

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>]

On 07/03/2022 09:40, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 07/03/2022 09:33, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> On 07. 03. 22, 9:09, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> The driver data (struct s3c24xx_serial_drv_data) is only used to
>>> initialize the driver properly and is not modified.  Make it const.
>> ...
>>> @@ -2755,9 +2755,9 @@ static struct s3c24xx_serial_drv_data s5pv210_serial_drv_data = {
>>>   	},
>>>   	.fifosize = { 256, 64, 16, 16 },
>>>   };
>>> -#define S5PV210_SERIAL_DRV_DATA ((kernel_ulong_t)&s5pv210_serial_drv_data)
>>> +#define S5PV210_SERIAL_DRV_DATA (&s5pv210_serial_drv_data)
>>>   #else
>>> -#define S5PV210_SERIAL_DRV_DATA	(kernel_ulong_t)NULL
>>> +#define S5PV210_SERIAL_DRV_DATA	NULL
>>
>> Yet, I still don't see why the switch from ulong->ptr happens in this 
>> "constify it" patch?
> 
> All these defines S5PV210_SERIAL_DRV_DATA and so on are now const and
> are assigned to of_device_id.data (s3c24xx_uart_dt_match). Before, these
> were assigned with a cast:
> 
> static const struct of_device_id s3c24xx_uart_dt_match[] = {
> 	{ .compatible = "samsung,s5pv210-uart",
> 
> 	.data = (void *)S5PV210_SERIAL_DRV_DATA }
> 
> but since the actual data structure is const, I want to drop the cast.
> Casting const via (void *) might hide some possible issues, e.g. if
> of_device_id.data becomes actually non-const. There is no particular
> issue here, because of_device_id.data and S5PV210_SERIAL_DRV_DATA are
> const. But also because they are both const now, I want to drop the cast
> via void *.
> 
> When (void *) is dropped, the S5PV210_SERIAL_DRV_DATA cannot be
> kernel_ulong_t:
> 
> ../drivers/tty/serial/samsung_tty.c:2753:33: warning: initialization of
> ‘const void *’ from ‘long unsigned int’ makes pointer from integer
> without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
> 
>  2753 | #define S5PV210_SERIAL_DRV_DATA (kernel_ulong_t)NULL
> 

I will split the casts removal to separate patch. I hope this clarifies
a bit.


Best regards,
Krzysztof