On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Rob Herring <robh...@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote:
>> One change that was meant to address a sparse warning turned out
>> to cause hundreds of new gcc-7 warnings:
>
> I guess you are the only one on gcc-7.
It was just released last week or so. I actually had been using it for
a while but accidentally disabled a lot of the warning output until now
some others started using it too and asked me about it.
>> include/linux/of_irq.h:11:13: error: type qualifiers ignored on function
>> return type [-Werror=ignored-qualifiers]
>>
>> After reverting the change, the gcc warnings are gone again, and I
>> can't reproduce the sparse warnings either.
>
> Humm, maybe different sparse versions? I'm on 0.5.0.
I have v0.5.0-183-gfbbfc73. To clarify, I did not get a sparse warning after my
patch, I did not try reverting your patch first.
Arnd
