netdev - Re: [PATCH] [net] liquidio: fix timespec64_to

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Message-Id: <20171013.101906.1329879506895069911.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:19:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     arnd@...db.de
Cc:     derek.chickles@...iumnetworks.com,
        satananda.burla@...iumnetworks.com,
        felix.manlunas@...iumnetworks.com,
        raghu.vatsavayi@...iumnetworks.com, intiyaz.basha@...ium.com,
        ricardo.farrington@...ium.com, veerasenareddy.burru@...ium.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [net] liquidio: fix timespec64_to_ns typo

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:48:31 +0200

> While experimenting with changes to the timekeeping code, I
> ran into a build error in the liquidio driver:
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c: In function 'liquidio_ptp_settime':
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c:1850:22: error: passing argument 1 of 'timespec_to_ns' from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
> 
> The driver had a type mismatch since it was first merged, but
> this never caused problems because it is only built on 64-bit
> architectures that define timespec and timespec64 to the same
> type.
> 
> If we ever want to compile-test the driver on 32-bit or change
> the way that 64-bit timespec64 is defined, we need to fix it,
> so let's just do it now.
> 
> Fixes: f21fb3ed364b ("Add support of Cavium Liquidio ethernet adapters")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Applied.