x86/platform/intel-mid: Revert "Make 'bt_sfi_data' const"
So one of the constification patches unearthed a type casting fragility of the underlying code: 276c8705 ("x86/platform/intel-mid: Make 'bt_sfi_data' const") converted the struct to be const while it is also used as a temporary container for important data that is used to fill 'parent' and 'name' fields in struct platform_device_info. The compiler doesn't notice this due to an explicit type cast that loses the const - which fragility will be fixed separately. This type cast turned a seemingly trivial const propagation patch into a hard to debug data corruptor and crasher bug. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: julia.lawall@lip6.fr Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171228122523.21802-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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