From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752598AbaCQV32 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:29:28 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48421 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751818AbaCQV31 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:29:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:31:28 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Masood Mehmood Cc: lidza.louina@gmail.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: dgap: Fixed sparse error: same symbol redeclared with different type Message-ID: <20140317213128.GA2147@kroah.com> References: <1394355455-20644-1-git-send-email-ody.guru@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1394355455-20644-1-git-send-email-ody.guru@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 12:57:35AM -0800, Masood Mehmood wrote: > sparse reported dgap_do_fep_load is redeclared with different type. while > fixing, I noticed __user attribute is used incorrectly in declaration. > There is no need to define __user for firware->data. > > Replaced the __user with 'const uchar *' from function dgap_do_fep_load and > did the same for function dgap_do_bios_load. > > Signed-off-by: Masood Mehmood > --- > drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c | 13 ++++++------- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) This patch does not apply to my tree, can you redo it? thanks, greg k-h