linux-kernel - 2.6.28-mmotm1230 - include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h prototype mismatch

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Date:	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:51:26 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mchehab@...radead.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, video4linux-list@...hat.com
Subject: 2.6.28-mmotm1230 - include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h prototype mismatch

I'm seeing the following warning message during a kernel build:

  CC [M]  drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca.o
drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca.c:1811: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

The root cause appears to be a missed prototype change in a conversion from
ioctl to unlocked_ioctl - in struct file_operations, the former is an int,
but the latter is a long.  So we clean it up.

I have to admit not having checked deeply for second-order effects, but the
kernel builds without warnings and the result works for me.  The only other
use of __video_ioctl2 I can see is in drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-ioctl.c,
and there it's used as a return value from a function already defined to return
a long, so we save an int->long cast...

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>

--- linux-2.6.28-mmotm1230/include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h.dist	2009-01-01 17:23:00.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.28-mmotm1230/include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h	2009-01-02 05:40:45.000000000 -0500
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ extern int video_usercopy(struct file *f
 /* Standard handlers for V4L ioctl's */
 
 /* This prototype is used on fops.unlocked_ioctl */
-extern int __video_ioctl2(struct file *file,
+extern long __video_ioctl2(struct file *file,
 			unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
 
 /* This prototype is used on fops.ioctl
--- linux-2.6.28-mmotm1230/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c.dist	2009-01-01 17:22:50.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.28-mmotm1230/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c	2009-01-02 05:45:39.000000000 -0500
@@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@ static int __video_do_ioctl(struct file 
 	return ret;
 }
 
-int __video_ioctl2(struct file *file,
+long __video_ioctl2(struct file *file,
 	       unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	char	sbuf[128];




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