From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754803Ab3GTSk1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:40:27 -0400 Received: from mail.tomasu.net ([64.85.170.232]:36304 "EHLO mail.tomasu.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754723Ab3GTSk0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:40:26 -0400 From: Thomas Fjellstrom To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: compile error on 3.10.1 Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:39:34 -0600 Message-ID: <4042881.r0jf4IMbXO@balsa> User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (Linux/3.9-1-amd64; KDE/4.10.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <2288831.DxHLOohu6v@balsa> References: <36183925.Z4AeQk3t4j@balsa> <20130720180210.GA6190@kroah.com> <2288831.DxHLOohu6v@balsa> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat 20 July 2013 12:07:03 Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On Sat 20 July 2013 11:02:10 you wrote: > > 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? > > I'll check. > > All I've tested so far is debian's 2.6.32, 3.9.8, 3.10.1, and a vanilla > 3.10.1 (with allmodconfig and oldconfig+debian config). I meant to say I only tried 3.10.1... I'm getting this and my last email confused a little. Just tested the v3.10 tag from the stable repo and it exhibits the same problem. > > > 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. > > Can do. Done. > > greg k-h -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net