linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] dmaengine: xgene-dma: Fix sparse wannings warnings

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Date:	Mon, 4 May 2015 11:25:03 +0530
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	Rameshwar Prasad Sahu <rsahu@....com>
Cc:	dan.j.williams@...el.com, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, jcm@...hat.com,
	patches@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] dmaengine: xgene-dma: Fix sparse wannings warnings

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 05:26:45PM +0530, Rameshwar Prasad Sahu wrote:

Suject line should mention the fixes you are doing and not tool!
> v5 changes:
> 	* Re-pull v3 changes that I missed in v4
> 
> v4 changes:
> 	* Re-generate patch on top of latest for-linux git
> 
> v3 changes:
> 	* Minor changes in length setting in DMA descriptor
> 
> v2 changes:
> 	* Code cleanup
> 	* Changed way of setting DMA descriptors for big-endian
This is *not* supposed to be part of changelog!

You can add this after the S-O-B line!!
> 
> This patch fixes compilation sparse warnings like incorrect type in assignment
> (different base types), cast to restricted __le64, symbol
> '__UNIQUE_ID_author__COUNTER__' has multiple initializers etc.
> 
> This patch is based on slave-dma / for-linus branch.
> (commit: 11ebe4c067c7f95adff73594cb5c23f7a5c6d69e
> 	dmaengine: fix platform_no_drv_owner.cocci warnings
this too :(
> 
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rameshwar Prasad Sahu <rsahu@....com>

> 
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("APM X-Gene SoC DMA driver");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Rameshwar Prasad Sahu <rsahu@....com>");
> -MODULE_AUTHOR("Loc Ho <lho@....com>");
Pls drop this

-- 
~Vinod

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