linux-kernel - Re: New sparse warning from min_t(): expression using sizeof(void)

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Date:   Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:54:30 +0300
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@...il.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        luciano.coelho@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New sparse warning from min_t(): expression using sizeof(void)

Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@...il.com> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 10:50:51AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Is there any way to fix it? With ath10k I use sparse a lot and because
>> of these warnings sparse is now very annoying to use.
>
> I submitted a sparse patch [1] for this not too long ago, but in the
> meantime you can still curl the patch [2] and apply it directly to
> the v0.5.2 release to suppress the deluge of warnings (-Wpointer-arith
> is off by defaultl so no need to change any of you configurations).
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/10/923
> [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10334353/raw/

Perfect, thanks. Unfortunatelly I need to catch a boat and I can't test
it right now, but I'll do that on Monday.

-- 
Kalle Valo