From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean up sparse cast warning in do_ip_getsockopt Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:22:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20140720.222246.722922848026554870.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140720113017.GA8878@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jmorris@namei.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: karoly.kemeny@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:53604 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752041AbaGUFWr (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2014 01:22:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140720113017.GA8878@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Karoly Kemeny Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:30:17 +0200 > There is a sparse warning because of the implicit pointer cast in > do_ip_getsockopt. > > Signed-off-by: Karoly Kemeny Please format your subject line correctly, it should be of the form: [PATCH] ${SUBSYSTEM}: Description. Your's is missing the subsystem prefix, which in this case should be "ipv4: " > - msg.msg_control = optval; > + msg.msg_control = (__force void*) optval; Please put a space between "void" and "*" in the cast.