linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] leds: pm8058: Make ledtype pointer sized type

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Message-ID: <20171201075613.vvwvrkl73pd7rg62@dell>
Date:   Fri, 1 Dec 2017 07:56:13 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@...il.com>
Cc:     Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: pm8058: Make ledtype pointer sized type

On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:

> On 11/30/2017 09:31 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Lee Jones wrote:
> > 
> >> On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> >>
> >>> The pointer returned by of_device_get_match_data() doesn't have the same
> >>> size as u32 on 64-bit architectures, causing issues when compile testing
> >>> the driver on such platform. Make ledtype unsigned long instead, to
> >>> solve this problem.
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: 7f866986e705 ("leds: add PM8058 LEDs driver")
> >>> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
> >>> ---
> >>>  drivers/leds/leds-pm8058.c | 4 ++--
> >>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> Hi Bjorn,
> >>
> >> (Nice to see you) :)
> >>
> >> I'm going to apply this *before* Linus' fix.
> >>
> >> Applied, thanks.
> > 
> > After I rx an Ack from Richard, Jacek or Pavel of course. :)
> > 
> > Will send a pull-request.
> 
> Huh? This is for LED subsystem AFAICS.

Right, hence why I said I'd sent out a pull-request.

The problem, however, arose due to a change in its parent driver's
Kconfig entry, which has been applied to the MFD tree.  We need to
ensure this patch is applied *before* the other 'fix' to quash the
warning before it starts, so to speak.

-- 
Lee Jones
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