Re: Linux 4.19-rc1

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:11:52AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> When building sparc32 images, this results in the following
> error.
> 
> drivers/base/platform.c: In function 'setup_pdev_archdata':
> drivers/base/platform.c:235:22: error: assignment from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>    pdev->dev.dma_mask = &pdev->dma_mask;
> 
> pdev->dev.dma_mask is u64 *, pdev->dma_mask is dma_addr_t which in turn
> is either u32 or u64 depending on the architecture.

Yes, I've fixed this up to be a u64.

> 
> > +++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h
> > @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ struct platform_device {
> >  	int		id;
> >  	bool		id_auto;
> >  	struct device	dev;
> > +	dma_addr_t	dma_mask;
> 
> ... so this will have to be u64, or the pointer in struct device would
> have to be fixed.
> 
> However, even changing the definition to u64 does not help: The warnings
> are still reported. This is because setup_pdev_archdata() is not called
> for any of the affected devices. That is kind of interesting since it
> means that arch_setup_pdev_archdata() won't be called for those devices
> either.

Yeah, this is odd.  I'll need some more time to figure out where
the platform devices for sbus are allocated.