[PATCH 1/1] scripts/dtc: avoid discarded qualifiers in overlay_fixup_phandle

Heinrich Schuchardt heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com
Sat Apr 18 20:15:10 CEST 2026


When building with GCC 15.2 the following warning show up:

    scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c:422:21: warning:
    assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type
    [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
      422 |                 sep = memchr(fixup_str, ':', fixup_len);
          |                     ^
    scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c:432:21: warning:
    assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type
    [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
      432 |                 sep = memchr(name, ':', fixup_len);
          |                     ^

Define sep as const char *.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
---
 scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c b/scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c
index ee64f0b8110..e40cfe8c3c7 100644
--- a/scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c
+++ b/scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c
@@ -407,7 +407,8 @@ static int overlay_fixup_phandle(void *fdt, void *fdto, int symbols_off,
 		const char *fixup_str = value;
 		uint32_t path_len, name_len;
 		uint32_t fixup_len;
-		char *sep, *endptr;
+		const char *sep;
+		char *endptr;
 		int poffset, ret;
 
 		fixup_end = memchr(value, '\0', len);
-- 
2.53.0



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