From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] zd1211rw: remove unnecessary [kv][mcz]alloc casts
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:20:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290936047.16349.13.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290935566.3467.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 10:12 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 01:05 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
> > @@ -117,8 +117,7 @@ int zd_ioread32v_locked(struct zd_chip *chip, u32 *values, const zd_addr_t *addr
> >
> > /* Allocate a single memory block for values and addresses. */
> > count16 = 2*count;
> > - a16 = (zd_addr_t *) kmalloc(count16 * (sizeof(zd_addr_t) + sizeof(u16)),
> > - GFP_KERNEL);
> > + a16 = kmalloc(count16 * (sizeof(zd_addr_t) + sizeof(u16)), GFP_KERNEL);
> I believe this is on purpose for sparse.
Perhaps in a previous version, but not now.
$ make C=1 drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.o
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHECK drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
include/trace/events/kmem.h:45:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:45:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:53:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:53:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:99:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:99:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:108:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:108:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:136:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:136:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:143:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:143:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:150:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:150:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:172:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:172:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:194:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:194:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:249:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:249:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:256:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:256:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:267:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:267:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/module.h:18:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/module.h:18:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/module.h:37:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/module.h:37:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/module.h:79:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/module.h:79:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/module.h:86:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/module.h:86:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/module.h:94:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/module.h:94:1: error: got goto
/home/joe/linux/net-next-2.6-2/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:197:9: error: attribute 'error': unknown attribute
include/trace/events/irq.h:37:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/irq.h:37:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/irq.h:67:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/irq.h:67:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/irq.h:112:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/irq.h:112:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/irq.h:126:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/irq.h:126:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/irq.h:140:1: error: Expected ( after asm
include/trace/events/irq.h:140:1: error: got goto
include/trace/events/kmem.h:45:1: error: need constant string for inline asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:45:1: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
include/trace/events/kmem.h:45:1: error: need constant string for inline asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:45:1: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
include/trace/events/kmem.h:45:1: error: need constant string for inline asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:45:1: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
include/trace/events/kmem.h:45:1: error: need constant string for inline asm
include/trace/events/kmem.h:45:1: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
CC drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.o
$
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-28 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-28 9:05 [PATCH 0/4] drivers/net: Remove unnecessary [kv][mcz]alloc casts Joe Perches
2010-11-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] zd1211rw: remove " Joe Perches
2010-11-28 9:12 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-28 9:20 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2010-11-28 9:30 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-28 9:50 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-28 10:02 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-28 10:13 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-28 10:02 ` [PATCH V2 4/4] zd1211rw: document need for kmalloc cast Joe Perches
2010-11-29 1:26 ` [PATCH 0/4] drivers/net: Remove unnecessary [kv][mcz]alloc casts David Miller
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