Subject: Re: linux-next: build warnings in Linus' tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:26:30 +1000

Hi Len,

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:08:02 +0800 Zhang Rui <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 09:42 +0800, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Len,
> > 
> > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:24:39 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced these warnings:
> > > 
> > > drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:152: warning: passing argument 1 of '__check_old_set_param' from incompatible pointer type
> > > include/linux/moduleparam.h:165: note: expected 'int (*)(const char *, struct kernel_param *)' but argument is of type 'int (*)(const char *, const struct kernel_param *)'

[several more elided]

> > > Introduced by commit 1c8fce27e275fd7c6b75bc6455745f02d3903ee6 ("ACPI:
> > > introduce drivers/acpi/sysfs.c") interacting with commit
> > > 9bbb9e5a33109b2832e2e63dcc7a132924ab374b ("param: use ops in struct
> > > kernel_param, rather than get and set fns directly").
> > 
> > Can we have this fixed, please?
> patch attached. :)
> 
> Use module_param_cb instead of the obsoleted module_param_call to fix a build warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <[email-masked]>

Now that this has been in linux-next since Sep 6, can you please send it
to Linus.  It removes quite a few warnings that were introduced during
this merge window - and I think we already have too many warnings.

Thanks.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    [email-masked]
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/