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* drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c - address of 'sym53c416*' will always evaluate as 'true' , warnings
@ 2007-07-22 13:52 Gabriel C
  2007-07-22 16:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gabriel C @ 2007-07-22 13:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel Mailing List; +Cc: Lieven Willems, Alan Cox, linux-scsi

Hi,

I got this warnings on current git with gcc 4.2.1 :


...

drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c: In function 'sym53c416_detect':
drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:638: warning: the address of 'sym53c416' will always evaluate as 'true'
drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:644: warning: the address of 'sym53c416_1' will always evaluate as 'true'
drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:650: warning: the address of 'sym53c416_2' will always evaluate as 'true'
drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:656: warning: the address of 'sym53c416_3' will always evaluate as 'true'

...


Regards,

Gabriel C

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* Re: drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c - address of 'sym53c416*' will always evaluate as 'true' , warnings
  2007-07-22 13:52 drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c - address of 'sym53c416*' will always evaluate as 'true' , warnings Gabriel C
@ 2007-07-22 16:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
  2007-07-22 16:38   ` Gabriel C
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Matthew Wilcox @ 2007-07-22 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Gabriel C; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List, Lieven Willems, Alan Cox, linux-scsi

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 03:52:21PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c: In function 'sym53c416_detect':
> drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:638: warning: the address of 'sym53c416' will always evaluate as 'true'
> drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:644: warning: the address of 'sym53c416_1' will always evaluate as 'true'
> drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:650: warning: the address of 'sym53c416_2' will always evaluate as 'true'
> drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:656: warning: the address of 'sym53c416_3' will always evaluate as 'true'

These warnings certainly indicate a problem; I've looked through the
driver and it's a bit of a mess.  Do you have one of these cards?  I can
write and send you some patches to test on Monday or Tuesday, after I'm
done with the advansys driver.

-- 
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

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* Re: drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c - address of 'sym53c416*' will always evaluate as 'true' , warnings
  2007-07-22 16:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
@ 2007-07-22 16:38   ` Gabriel C
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gabriel C @ 2007-07-22 16:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matthew Wilcox
  Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List, Lieven Willems, Alan Cox, linux-scsi

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 03:52:21PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
>> drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c: In function 'sym53c416_detect':
>> drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:638: warning: the address of 'sym53c416' will always evaluate as 'true'
>> drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:644: warning: the address of 'sym53c416_1' will always evaluate as 'true'
>> drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:650: warning: the address of 'sym53c416_2' will always evaluate as 'true'
>> drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c:656: warning: the address of 'sym53c416_3' will always evaluate as 'true'
> 
> These warnings certainly indicate a problem; I've looked through the
> driver and it's a bit of a mess.  Do you have one of these cards?  I can
> write and send you some patches to test on Monday or Tuesday, after I'm
> done with the advansys driver.
> 

Sorry , I don't have these cards :/


Regards,

Gabriel

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