Linux 2.5.3-pre1 compiler warnings

From: Tim Coleman (tim@epenguin.org)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 00:35:43 EST

I noticed the following warnings when compiling 2.5.3-pre1
this evening:

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
-pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4
-c -o read_write.o read_write.c
In file included from read_write.c:13:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/dnotify.h:18: warning: `struct inode'
declared inside parameter list
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/dnotify.h:18: warning: its scope is only
this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want.
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/dnotify.h:21: warning: `struct inode'
declared inside parameter list
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/dnotify.h: In function `inode_dir_notify':
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/dnotify.h:23: dereferencing pointer to
incomplete type
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/dnotify.h:24: warning: passing arg 1 of
`__inode_dir_notify' from incompatible pointer type
read_write.c: In function `sys_read':
read_write.c:167: warning: passing arg 1 of `inode_dir_notify' from
incompatible pointer type
read_write.c: In function `sys_write':
read_write.c:194: warning: passing arg 1 of `inode_dir_notify' from
incompatible pointer type
read_write.c: In function `do_readv_writev':
read_write.c:299: warning: passing arg 1 of `inode_dir_notify' from
incompatible pointer type
read_write.c: In function `sys_pread':
read_write.c:371: warning: passing arg 1 of `inode_dir_notify' from
incompatible pointer type
read_write.c: In function `sys_pwrite':
read_write.c:403: warning: passing arg 1 of `inode_dir_notify' from
incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [read_write.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/fs'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/fs'
make: *** [_dir_fs] Error 2

GCC version 2.95.4 

-- 
Tim Coleman <tim@epenguin.org>                         [43.28 N 80.31 W]
BMath, Honours Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
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  safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

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