Re: [PATCH v10] MTD: LPC32xx MLC NAND driver

From: Roland Stigge
Date: Sat Jun 30 2012 - 08:32:14 EST


Hi Artem!

Thanks for the notes!

On 29/06/12 14:37, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Successfully built configuration
> "arm-lpc32xx_defconfig,arm,arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-", results:
>
> --- before_patching.log +++ after_patching.log @@ @@
> +drivers/mtd/nand/lpc32xx_mlc.c: In function 'lpc32xx_nand_probe':
> +drivers/mtd/nand/lpc32xx_mlc.c:679:10: warning: variable 'sr' set
> but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/lpc32xx_mlc.c:561:24: error: bad constant
> expression [sparse]

This is because sparse doesn't understand this local variable:

uint8_t buf[mtd->writesize];

(but gcc does).

Are you sure we need to support sparse?

The above construction is quite convenient for this case and I'd
prefer this to allocating another buffer dynamically.

Thanks in advance,

Roland
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