From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: compile error on 3.10.1
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:02:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130720180210.GA6190@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36183925.Z4AeQk3t4j@balsa>
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 09:59:57AM -0600, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> Hi, just trying to compile a vanilla kernel and building using
> allmodconfig and using oldconfig with the debian 3.10.1 config as a base.
>
> With the later config, I get the following:
Is this new to 3.10.1 and works fine for 3.10.0?
> CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.o
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c: In function âwil_print_ringâ:
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:163:11: error: pointer targets in
> passing argument 5 of âhex_dump_to_bufferâ differ in signedness [-
> Werror=pointer-sign]
> false);
> ^
> In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0,
> from include/linux/cache.h:4,
> from include/linux/time.h:4,
> from include/linux/stat.h:18,
> from include/linux/module.h:10,
> from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:17:
> include/linux/printk.h:361:13: note: expected âchar *â but argument is of type
> âunsigned char *â
> extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len,
> ^
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c: In function
> âwil_txdesc_debugfs_showâ:
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:429:10: error: pointer targets in
> passing argument 5 of âhex_dump_to_bufferâ differ in signedness [-
> Werror=pointer-sign]
> sizeof(printbuf), false);
> ^
> In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0,
> from include/linux/cache.h:4,
> from include/linux/time.h:4,
> from include/linux/stat.h:18,
> from include/linux/module.h:10,
> from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:17:
> include/linux/printk.h:361:13: note: expected âchar *â but argument is of type
> âunsigned char *â
> extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len,
> ^
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> make[5]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.o] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>
> There are also a bunch of warnings, most of the ones I could catch are
> signedness related.
Care to send this to the atheros wireless developers? I'm sure they
would like to know about it.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-20 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-20 15:59 compile error on 3.10.1 Thomas Fjellstrom
2013-07-20 18:02 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-07-20 18:07 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2013-07-20 18:39 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
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