Re: [PATCH] x86: suppress trivial sparse signedness warnings

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 03:55:49 EST



* Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Could just as easily change the three casts to cast to the correct
> type...this patch changes the type of ftrace_nop instead.
>
> Supresses sparse warnings:
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:157:14: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different signedness)
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:157:14: expected long *static [toplevel] ftrace_nop
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:157:14: got unsigned long *<noident>
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:161:14: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different signedness)
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:161:14: expected long *static [toplevel] ftrace_nop
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:161:14: got unsigned long *<noident>
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:165:14: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different signedness)
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:165:14: expected long *static [toplevel] ftrace_nop
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:165:14: got unsigned long *<noident>
>
> Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx>

applied to tip/tracing/ftrace, thanks Harvey!

Ingo
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