Re: linux-next: Tree for June 9 (niu)

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On 06/09/10 11:06, David Miller wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:36:57 -0700
> 
>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:34:43 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>
>>> Changes since 20100608:
>>>
>>> My fixes tree contains:
>>>       v4l-dvb: update gfp/slab.h includes
>>>       arm: update gfp/slab.h includes
>>>       davinci: update gfp/slab.h includes
>>>       ocfs2: update gfp/slab.h includes
>>>       acpi: update gfp/slab.h includes
>>
>>
>>
>> on x86_64 or i386, CONFIG_OF_DEVICE is not enabled:
>>
>> drivers/net/niu.c:9700: warning: 'struct of_device' declared inside parameter list
>> drivers/net/niu.c:9700: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
>> drivers/net/niu.c:9716: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> 
> Hmmm, I'm confused why this never happened before :-)
> 
> We conditionalize linux/of_device.h inclusion with CONFIG_SPARC64, yet
> we unconditionally use "struct of_device *" pointers in the driver
> with no such ifdef protection.
> 
> Even if we unconditionally included linux/of_device.h, that file does
> nothing unless CONFIG_OF_DEVICE is defined so it should have always
> produced these warnings since I can't see from where else it could
> have gotten even a "struct of_device;" somewhere.
> 
> Do you have any idea Randy?  Pease try analyze this further so we can
> fix it properly.


I looked and was confuzed, but I'll look again.

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~Randy
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