Re: [PATCH] ALSA: make snd_kcontrol_new name a normal string

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 20:03:39 +0100,
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 6:03 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:52:18 +0100,
> > Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > When building with W=2, there are lots of warnings about the
> > > snd_kcontrol_new name field being an array of 'unsigned char'
> > > but initialized to a string:
> > >
> > > include/sound/soc.h:93:48: warning: pointer targets in initialization of 'const unsigned char *' from 'char *' differ in signedness [-Wpointer-sign]
> > >
> > > Make it a regular 'char *' to avoid flooding the build log with this.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I'm fine to apply this, but I thought we agreed to ignore pointer
> > signedness intentionally?  There are lots of such places and we were
> > fed up in the past when gcc complained a lot about those...
> 
> I'm only sending fixes for the ones in headers that get included in
> a lot of places. There are good reasons for building being able to
> build specific drivers or directories with W=2, but it's less helpful
> if there are many identical warnings.

OK, now I applied the patch.  Thanks!


Takashi