Re: [GIT PULL] dmaengine updates for 4.3-rc1'

[Vinod Koul]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 11:13:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Here is the dmaengine update for 4.3-rc1.
> 
> Ugh. Something horrible happened here.
> 
> > New devices added are:
> > - dma controller in sun[457]i SoCs
> 
> This thing is completely broken and causes a lot of nasty error
> messages on 64-bit:
> 
>   drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c: In function âfind_and_use_pchanâ:
>   drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c:241:32: warning: passing argument 1 of
> âfind_next_zero_bitâ from incompatible pointer type
> [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>   ...
> 
> and this needs to be fixed.
> 
> I've removed the COMPILE_TEST option for that config in the meantime,
> because I refuse to have my screen fill up with warnings like this.
> 
> COMPILE_TEST is fine for drivers that are supposed to compile cleanly
> even if they might not work - and encouraging people to _keep_ them
> compiling cleanly and get better compile test coverage.
> 
> But it's not fine for stuff that causes big warnings and might hide
> actual real problems.

Sorry about this noise, I will get this fixed

-- 
~Vinod
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