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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Juston Li <juston.h.li@gmail.com>
Cc: oleg.drokin@intel.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	andreas.dilger@intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, HPDD-discuss@ml01.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: mdc: use __FMODE_EXEC macro
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:46:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141117224616.GI4905@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416263028-16026-1-git-send-email-juston.h.li@gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:23:48PM -0800, Juston Li wrote:
> FMODE_EXEC is type fmode_t but is used in operations
> with integers which leads to sparse warnings:
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_lib.c:198:21: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c:300:49: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer
> 
> Fix by using __FMODE_EXEC macro defined in fs.h.
> 
> Note the same warnings occurs with other fmode flags
> here but they don't have a corresponding int macro.
> 

When are FMODE_EXEC and __FMODE_EXEC not defined?  I think they're
always defined.  I don't understand the point of these ifdefs.  I guess
maybe they are for compatability with obsolete kernels?

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-17 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-17 22:23 [PATCH] staging: lustre: mdc: use __FMODE_EXEC macro Juston Li
2014-11-17 22:46 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-11-18  0:23   ` Juston
2014-11-18  0:55     ` Greg KH
2014-11-18  6:43     ` Dan Carpenter

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