Re: 2.6.28-mmotm1230 - include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h prototypemismatch

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jan 05 2009 - 02:21:53 EST


On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:51:26 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> I'm seeing the following warning message during a kernel build:
>
> CC [M] drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca.o
> drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca.c:1811: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
>
> The root cause appears to be a missed prototype change in a conversion from
> ioctl to unlocked_ioctl - in struct file_operations, the former is an int,
> but the latter is a long. So we clean it up.
>
> I have to admit not having checked deeply for second-order effects, but the
> kernel builds without warnings and the result works for me. The only other
> use of __video_ioctl2 I can see is in drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-ioctl.c,
> and there it's used as a return value from a function already defined to return
> a long, so we save an int->long cast...
>
> Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx>
>
> --- linux-2.6.28-mmotm1230/include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h.dist 2009-01-01 17:23:00.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6.28-mmotm1230/include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h 2009-01-02 05:40:45.000000000 -0500
> @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ extern int video_usercopy(struct file *f
> /* Standard handlers for V4L ioctl's */
>
> /* This prototype is used on fops.unlocked_ioctl */
> -extern int __video_ioctl2(struct file *file,
> +extern long __video_ioctl2(struct file *file,
> unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
>
> /* This prototype is used on fops.ioctl
> --- linux-2.6.28-mmotm1230/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c.dist 2009-01-01 17:22:50.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6.28-mmotm1230/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c 2009-01-02 05:45:39.000000000 -0500
> @@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@ static int __video_do_ioctl(struct file
> return ret;
> }
>
> -int __video_ioctl2(struct file *file,
> +long __video_ioctl2(struct file *file,
> unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> {
> char sbuf[128];

That code seems to have magically disappeared from linux-next.
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