linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1

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Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:04:09 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.sf.net
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1

On Friday, October 17, 2008 7:10 pm Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:43 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > So what's the excuse _this_ time for adding all these stupid warnings to
> > my build log? Did nobody test this?
> >
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_proc.c: In function ‘drm_gem_one_name_info’:
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_proc.c:525: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type
> > ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘size_t’ drivers/gpu/drm/drm_proc.c:533:
> > warning: format ‘%9d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 4 has type
> > ‘size_t’ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c: In function
> > ‘i915_gem_gtt_pwrite’: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c:184: warning:
> > unused variable ‘vaddr_atomic’
>
> Yeah, none of us are on x86-64, so we missed those warnings in testing.

Actually, I'm on x86_64 pretty much exclusively and saw these warnings last 
week.  But I didn't send a fix (yet); sorry.

That said, this code was far from untested, even though it did contain a few 
compile warnings, so I think Linus's complaint about UNTESTED CRAP was at 
least half wrong.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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