Re: [PATCH] [i2c]: Fix some gcc 4.0 compile failures and warnings

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:12:44PM -0800, Mickey Stein wrote:
> From: Mickey Stein
> Versions:   linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk11, gcc4 (GCC) 4.0.0 20050217 (latest fc 
> rawhide from 19Feb DL)
> 
> gcc 4.0.x cvs seems to dislike "include/linux/i2c.h file" and others 
> due to a current gcc 4.0.x change having to do with
> array declarations.
> 
> Example error msg:   include/linux/i2c.h:{55,194} error: array type has 
> incomplete element type
> 
> A. Daplas has recently done a workaround for this on another header 
> file. A thread discussing this
> can be found by following the link below:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-02/msg00053.html
> 
> The patch changes the array(struct i2c_msg) declaration used by 
> *i2c_transfer and *master_xfer
> from "struct i2c_msg msg[]" format to "struct i2c_msg *msg".
> 
> After some grepping, I came up with about a dozen files that used the 
> format disliked by gcc4 that're addressed by the attached patch.
> Tested on gcc 3.x & gcc 4.x by configuring kernel with all i2c switches 
> enabled as module, and saw no errors or warnings in i2c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mickey Stein <yekkim@pacbell.net>

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h