linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] hexagon: modify ffs() and fls() to return int

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Message-ID: <39ac5a3f-b5fa-a928-6caf-a7a01251f5ea@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:27:47 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-hexagon@...r.kernel.org,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hexagon: modify ffs() and fls() to return int

On 07/23/2018 03:50 PM, Richard Kuo wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 04:03:58PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>>
>> Building drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nandsim.c on arch/hexagon/ produces a
>> printk format build warning.  This is due to hexagon's ffs() being
>> coded as returning long instead of int.
>>
>> Fix the printk format warning by changing all of hexagon's ffs() and
>> fls() functions to return int instead of long.  The variables that
>> they return are already int instead of long.  This return type
>> matches the return type in <asm-generic/bitops/>.
>>
>> ../drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nandsim.c: In function 'init_nandsim':
>> ../drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nandsim.c:760:2: warning: format '%u' expects argument of type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'long int' [-Wformat]
>>
>> There are no ffs() or fls() allmodconfig build errors after making this
>> change.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>
>> Cc: linux-hexagon@...r.kernel.org
>> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
>> ---
>> v2:
>> add hexagon contacts, drop erroneous sh contacts; [thanks, Geert]
>> only change return type for ffs() and fls() [thanks, Geert]
>>   [drop the changes for ffz(), __ffs(), and __fls()]
>>
>>  arch/hexagon/include/asm/bitops.h |    4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>
> 

Hi Richard,

You are listed as the arch/hexagon/ maintainer.  Can you please merge these
patches?

thanks,
-- 
~Randy