Re: [PATCH] [net] liquidio: fix timespec64_to_ns typo

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Oct 13 2017 - 13:19:14 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:48:31 +0200

> While experimenting with changes to the timekeeping code, I
> ran into a build error in the liquidio driver:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c: In function 'liquidio_ptp_settime':
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c:1850:22: error: passing argument 1 of 'timespec_to_ns' from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>
> The driver had a type mismatch since it was first merged, but
> this never caused problems because it is only built on 64-bit
> architectures that define timespec and timespec64 to the same
> type.
>
> If we ever want to compile-test the driver on 32-bit or change
> the way that 64-bit timespec64 is defined, we need to fix it,
> so let's just do it now.
>
> Fixes: f21fb3ed364b ("Add support of Cavium Liquidio ethernet adapters")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Applied.