[POWERPC] change get_property to return void *

Change the get_property() function to return a void *. This allows us
to later remove the cast done in the majority of callers.

Built for pseries, iseries, pmac32, cell, cbesim, g5, systemsim, maple,
and mpc* defconfigs

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 4c524cb..ef3619c 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -1975,8 +1975,7 @@ struct property *of_find_property(struct device_node *np, const char *name,
  * Find a property with a given name for a given node
  * and return the value.
  */
-unsigned char *get_property(struct device_node *np, const char *name,
-                           int *lenp)
+void *get_property(struct device_node *np, const char *name, int *lenp)
 {
        struct property *pp = of_find_property(np,name,lenp);
        return pp ? pp->value : NULL;

diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/prom.h b/include/asm-powerpc/prom.h
index 010d186..b0768f4 100644 (file)
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/prom.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/prom.h
@@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ extern void unflatten_device_tree(void);
 extern void early_init_devtree(void *);
 extern int device_is_compatible(struct device_node *device, const char *);
 extern int machine_is_compatible(const char *compat);
-extern unsigned char *get_property(struct device_node *node, const char *name,
-                                  int *lenp);
+extern void *get_property(struct device_node *node, const char *name,
+               int *lenp);
 extern void print_properties(struct device_node *node);
 extern int prom_n_addr_cells(struct device_node* np);
 extern int prom_n_size_cells(struct device_node* np);