linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 121/163] paride: make verbose parameter an int again

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Message-Id: <20160503000512.477756871@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Mon,  2 May 2016 17:12:29 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Tim Waugh <tim@...erelk.net>,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 121/163] paride: make verbose parameter an int again

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

commit dec63a4dec2d6d01346fd5d96062e67c0636852b upstream.

gcc-6.0 found an ancient bug in the paride driver, which had a
"module_param(verbose, bool, 0);" since before 2.6.12, but actually uses
it to accept '0', '1' or '2' as arguments:

  drivers/block/paride/pd.c: In function 'pd_init_dev_parms':
  drivers/block/paride/pd.c:298:29: warning: comparison of constant '1' with boolean expression is always false [-Wbool-compare]
   #define DBMSG(msg) ((verbose>1)?(msg):NULL)

In 2012, Rusty did a cleanup patch that also changed the type of the
variable to 'bool', which introduced what is now a gcc warning.

This changes the type back to 'int' and adapts the module_param() line
instead, so it should work as documented in case anyone ever cares about
running the ancient driver with debugging.

Fixes: 90ab5ee94171 ("module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc)")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@...erelk.net>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/block/paride/pd.c |    4 ++--
 drivers/block/paride/pt.c |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/paride/pd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/paride/pd.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
 */
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
-static bool verbose = 0;
+static int verbose = 0;
 static int major = PD_MAJOR;
 static char *name = PD_NAME;
 static int cluster = 64;
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ enum {D_PRT, D_PRO, D_UNI, D_MOD, D_GEO,
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(pd_mutex);
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pd_lock);
 
-module_param(verbose, bool, 0);
+module_param(verbose, int, 0);
 module_param(major, int, 0);
 module_param(name, charp, 0);
 module_param(cluster, int, 0);
--- a/drivers/block/paride/pt.c
+++ b/drivers/block/paride/pt.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 
 */
 
-static bool verbose = 0;
+static int verbose = 0;
 static int major = PT_MAJOR;
 static char *name = PT_NAME;
 static int disable = 0;
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static int (*drives[4])[6] = {&drive0, &
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
-module_param(verbose, bool, 0);
+module_param(verbose, int, 0);
 module_param(major, int, 0);
 module_param(name, charp, 0);
 module_param_array(drive0, int, NULL, 0);