Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the net tree

[David Miller]

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:38:54 +1000

> After merging the net tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
> produced these warnings:
> 
> In file included from drivers/usb/gadget/ether.c:123:
> drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c: In function 'gen_ndis_query_resp':
> drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c:197: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> In file included from drivers/usb/gadget/multi.c:67:
> drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c: In function 'gen_ndis_query_resp':
> drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c:197: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> In file included from drivers/usb/gadget/g_ffs.c:30:
> drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c: In function 'gen_ndis_query_resp':
> drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c:197: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> 
> Introduced by commit be1f3c2c027cc5ad735df6a45a542ed1db7ec48b ("net:
> Enable 64-bit net device statistics on 32-bit architectures").  This is a
> call to dev_get_stats() and the return value is being assigned to a
> "struct net_device_stats *".

I've commited the patch below to deal with this, thanks for the report.

There's some pre-existing warnings someone will need to deal with at
some point:

drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c: whole file: warning: coding style is bolixed

:-)