On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 22:05 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 06/23/2014 09:35 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 09:38 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >> If compiled with W=1, the following warning is seen in powerpc builds. > >> > >> arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:750:18: warning: > >> type qualifiers ignored on function return type > >> static const int powerpc_smt_flags(void) > >> ^ > >> > >> This is caused by a function returning 'const int', which doesn't > >> make sense to gcc. Drop 'const' to fix the problem. > > > > This breaks the 64-bit build: > > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:764:2: error: initialization from incompatible > > pointer type [-Werror] > > arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:764:2: error: (near initialization for > > 'powerpc_topology[0].sd_flags') [-Werror] > > > > It appears that the generic definition in sched.h has this function > > defined as const int, so that needs to be fixed too along with all > > instances in all archs. > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/12/743
Won't the patch above break powerpc then ? IE. The functions signature won't match anymore ... /me thinks you probably need to fix them all at once. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev