A) It's not modified and so it can be made const. const is good.
B) If one has a function that was given a const pci_bus pointer and you
want to get a pointer to its pci_controller, you'll get a warning from gcc
when you use pci_bus_to_host(). This is the right way to stop that
warning.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
#ifndef CONFIG_PPC64
-static inline struct pci_controller *pci_bus_to_host(struct pci_bus *bus)
+static inline struct pci_controller *pci_bus_to_host(const struct pci_bus *bus)
{
return bus->sysdata;
}
extern int pcibios_remove_root_bus(struct pci_controller *phb);
-static inline struct pci_controller *pci_bus_to_host(struct pci_bus *bus)
+static inline struct pci_controller *pci_bus_to_host(const struct pci_bus *bus)
{
struct device_node *busdn = bus->sysdata;