linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the driver-core.current tree

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Date:	Sun, 2 May 2010 19:59:28 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the
 driver-core.current tree

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:01:37AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> After merging the driver-core.current tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig and x86_64 allmodconfig) produced these warning:
> 
> drivers/pcmcia/ds.c: In function 'pcmcia_load_firmware':
> drivers/pcmcia/ds.c:761: warning: passing argument 1 of 'release_firmware' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> include/linux/firmware.h:46: note: expected 'struct firmware *' but argument is of type 'const struct firmware *'
> drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c: In function 't3_get_edc_fw':
> drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c:1084: warning: passing argument 1 of 'release_firmware' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> include/linux/firmware.h:46: note: expected 'struct firmware *' but argument is of type 'const struct firmware *'
> 
> and *lots* more similar warnings ...
> 
> Caused by commit d5ae47f7d90f94a15e668f389c12211a11798b6f
> ("firmware_class: fix memory leak - free allocated pages").  This patch
> was modified from an earlier version that produced different (though many
> fewer) warnings.

Yeah, the people responsible were been notified last Friday, and they
sent me a patch today, hopefully it fixes the issue.  I'll test it out
tomorrow and merge it if it does.

thanks,

greg k-h
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