linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warnings in Linus' tree

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Message-Id: <20100927233115.27a5a379.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:31:15 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warnings in Linus' tree

Hi Len,

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:26:30 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:08:02 +0800 Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 09:42 +0800, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi Len,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:24:39 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced these warnings:
> > > > 
> > > > drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:152: warning: passing argument 1 of '__check_old_set_param' from incompatible pointer type
> > > > include/linux/moduleparam.h:165: note: expected 'int (*)(const char *, struct kernel_param *)' but argument is of type 'int (*)(const char *, const struct kernel_param *)'
> 
> [several more elided]
> 
> > > > Introduced by commit 1c8fce27e275fd7c6b75bc6455745f02d3903ee6 ("ACPI:
> > > > introduce drivers/acpi/sysfs.c") interacting with commit
> > > > 9bbb9e5a33109b2832e2e63dcc7a132924ab374b ("param: use ops in struct
> > > > kernel_param, rather than get and set fns directly").
> > > 
> > > Can we have this fixed, please?
> > patch attached. :)
> > 
> > Use module_param_cb instead of the obsoleted module_param_call to fix a build warning.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
> 
> Now that this has been in linux-next since Sep 6, can you please send it
> to Linus.  It removes quite a few warnings that were introduced during
> this merge window - and I think we already have too many warnings.

Ping?
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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