From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752590AbbIQNGU (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:06:20 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:36456 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751922AbbIQNGP (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:06:15 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.17,547,1437462000"; d="scan'208";a="807259333" Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:38:30 +0530 From: Vinod Koul To: Linus Torvalds Cc: dma , LKML Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] dmaengine updates for 4.3-rc1' Message-ID: <20150917130830.GR19522@localhost> References: <20150903064104.GS13546@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 11:13:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Vinod Koul 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