On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > 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.
Indeed, the warnings are gone with current sparse from git. Rob
