[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 09/12] libfdt: Add fdt_getprop_namelen_w

[Simon Glass]

Hi Maxime,

On 24 June 2016 at 08:27, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Add a function to retrieve a writeable property only by the first
> characters of its name.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  include/libfdt.h | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/libfdt.h b/include/libfdt.h
> index dbe8a0efca87..b8758de3ae54 100644
> --- a/include/libfdt.h
> +++ b/include/libfdt.h
> @@ -619,6 +619,13 @@ const void *fdt_getprop_by_offset(const void *fdt, int offset,
>   */
>  const void *fdt_getprop_namelen(const void *fdt, int nodeoffset,
>                                 const char *name, int namelen, int *lenp);
> +static inline void *fdt_getprop_namelen_w(void *fdt, int nodeoffset,
> +                                         const char *name, int namelen,
> +                                         int *lenp)
> +{
> +       return (void *)(uintptr_t)fdt_getprop_namelen(fdt, nodeoffset, name,
> +                                                     namelen, lenp);

What are the casts for?

> +}
>
>  /**
>   * fdt_getprop - retrieve the value of a given property
> --
> 2.9.0

Regards,
Simon