From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dma <dmaengine@vger.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] dmaengine updates for 4.3-rc1'
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:38:30 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150917130830.GR19522@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFw9B6Q4KiScx-u90MN-LjoJO-FTGCaftum5DMPWdTp93Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 11:13:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here is the dmaengine update for 4.3-rc1.
>
> Ugh. Something horrible happened here.
>
> > New devices added are:
> > - dma controller in sun[457]i SoCs
>
> This thing is completely broken and causes a lot of nasty error
> messages on 64-bit:
>
> drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c: In function ‘find_and_use_pchan’:
> drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c:241:32: warning: passing argument 1 of
> ‘find_next_zero_bit’ from incompatible pointer type
> [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
> ...
>
> and this needs to be fixed.
>
> I've removed the COMPILE_TEST option for that config in the meantime,
> because I refuse to have my screen fill up with warnings like this.
>
> COMPILE_TEST is fine for drivers that are supposed to compile cleanly
> even if they might not work - and encouraging people to _keep_ them
> compiling cleanly and get better compile test coverage.
>
> But it's not fine for stuff that causes big warnings and might hide
> actual real problems.
Sorry about this noise, I will get this fixed
--
~Vinod
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-17 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-03 6:41 [GIT PULL] dmaengine updates for 4.3-rc1 Vinod Koul
2015-09-04 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-17 13:08 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
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