Fix some 'const' problems

A cast was often needed to call some OF functions, removing a 'const' attribute.
This patchset removes 'const' from the device_node pointers of the sound/soc structures and also removes some useless casts in the sound/soc tree.

v2: remove const from the pointers instead of modifying the
OF functions (Russell King)

Jean-Francois Moine (2):
ASoC: Remove 'const' from the device_node pointers
ASoC: simple-card: Remove useless casts

 include/sound/soc.h                   | 6 +++---
 sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c       | 7 ++-----
 sound/soc/samsung/odroidx2_max98090.c | 4 ++--
 sound/soc/ux500/mop500.c              | 6 ++----
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

2.1.3

of_node_put() modifies the struct device_node contents. Therefore, of_node_put() definitely not treating the data pointed to as read-only, and therefore it is completely inappropriate for it to be marked "const".

---
 include/sound/soc.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

index 7ba7130..405f967 100644
@@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ struct snd_soc_platform_driver {
 
 struct snd_soc_dai_link_component {
 	const char *name;
-	const struct device_node *of_node;
+	struct device_node *of_node;
 	const char *dai_name;
 };
 

@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ struct snd_soc_codec_conf {
 	 * DT/OF node, but not both.
 	 */
 	const char *dev_name;
-	const struct device_node *of_node;
+	struct device_node *of_node;
 
 	/*
 	 * optional map of kcontrol, widget and path name prefixes that are

@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ struct snd_soc_aux_dev {
 	 * DT/OF node, but not both.
 	 */
 	const char *codec_name;
-	const struct device_node *codec_of_node;
+	struct device_node *codec_of_node;
 
 	/* codec/machine specific init - e.g. add machine controls */
 	int (*init)(struct snd_soc_component *component);

2.1.3

Did Russell write this patch (in which case it's missing a signoff and his e-mail address above) or are you trying to say "Russell King said..."?

Sorry, that was "Russell said ...".
Do you want I resubmit the patch?

Ken ar c'hentañ	|	      ** Breizh ha Linux atav! **
Jef		|		http://moinejf.free.fr/

Let me look at the change, I didn't do that yet (what you wrote looks awfully like the patch submission format for sending code someone else wrote...).

I think it comes from these files (from a previous patch from Jean adding a load of inappropriate const's to places where they do not belong):

 sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c       | 7 ++-----
 sound/soc/samsung/odroidx2_max98090.c | 4 ++--
 sound/soc/ux500/mop500.c              | 6 ++----

That patch was trying to do this to those three files:

-               np = (struct device_node *) dai_link->cpu_of_node;
-               of_node_put(np);
-               np = (struct device_node *) dai_link->codec_of_node;
-               of_node_put(np);
+               of_node_put(dai_link->cpu_of_node);
+               of_node_put(dai_link->codec_of_node);
...
-       of_node_put((struct device_node *)odroidx2_dai[0].cpu_of_node);
-       of_node_put((struct device_node *)odroidx2_dai[0].codec_of_node);
+       of_node_put(odroidx2_dai[0].cpu_of_node);
+       of_node_put(odroidx2_dai[0].codec_of_node);
...
                if (mop500_dai_links[i].cpu_of_node)
-                       of_node_put((struct device_node *)
-                               mop500_dai_links[i].cpu_of_node);
+                       of_node_put(mop500_dai_links[i].cpu_of_node);
                if (mop500_dai_links[i].codec_of_node)

- of_node_put((struct device_node *)
- mop500_dai_links[i].codec_of_node);
+ of_node_put(mop500_dai_links[i].codec_of_node);

having made of_node_put() take a const pointer. Since of_node_put() ultimately modifies the data pointed to by that pointer, making its argument "const" is incorrect.

Moreover, Jean's latest patch is absolutely the right thing to do. Had he quoted me fully, then the reason would become clear.

struct device_node is a ref-counted structure. That means if you store a reference to it, you should "get" it, and you should "put" it once you've done. The act of "put"ing the pointed-to structure involves writing to that structure, so it is totally unappropriate to store a device_node structure as a const pointer. It forces you to have to cast it back to a non-const pointer at various points in time to use various OF function calls.

So, what you have is a pointer that you would /like/ to be const, but ultimately you violate its const-ness at some point in time when you need to call of_node_put() on it. So it isn't really const at all.

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according to speedtest.net.

There is no need to cast the cpu_of_node or codec_of_node of the dai_links when calling of_put_node.

---
 sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c       | 7 ++-----
 sound/soc/samsung/odroidx2_max98090.c | 4 ++--
 sound/soc/ux500/mop500.c              | 6 ++----
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

index cd49d50..3e3fec4 100644
@@ -457,16 +457,13 @@ static int asoc_simple_card_unref(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct snd_soc_card *card = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 	struct snd_soc_dai_link *dai_link;
-	struct device_node *np;
 	int num_links;
 
 	for (num_links = 0, dai_link = card->dai_link;
 	     num_links < card->num_links;
 	     num_links++, dai_link++) {
-		np = (struct device_node *) dai_link->cpu_of_node;
-		of_node_put(np);
-		np = (struct device_node *) dai_link->codec_of_node;
-		of_node_put(np);
+		of_node_put(dai_link->cpu_of_node);
+		of_node_put(dai_link->codec_of_node);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }

index 3c8f604..d7640e7 100644
@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ static int odroidx2_audio_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	snd_soc_unregister_card(card);
 
-	of_node_put((struct device_node *)odroidx2_dai[0].cpu_of_node);
-	of_node_put((struct device_node *)odroidx2_dai[0].codec_of_node);
+	of_node_put(odroidx2_dai[0].cpu_of_node);
+	of_node_put(odroidx2_dai[0].codec_of_node);
 
 	return 0;
 }

index b3b66aa..ea9ba284 100644
@@ -64,11 +64,9 @@ static void mop500_of_node_put(void)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
 		if (mop500_dai_links[i].cpu_of_node)
-			of_node_put((struct device_node *)
-				mop500_dai_links[i].cpu_of_node);
+			of_node_put(mop500_dai_links[i].cpu_of_node);
 		if (mop500_dai_links[i].codec_of_node)
-			of_node_put((struct device_node *)
-				mop500_dai_links[i].codec_of_node);
+			of_node_put(mop500_dai_links[i].codec_of_node);
 	}
 }
 

2.1.3

Applied, thanks.