Re: [PATCH] mm: nobootmem: avoid type warning about alignment value

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Mon Jan 13 2014 - 18:33:45 EST


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 03:31:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:27:44 -0500 Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > It seems to me to be absolutely silly to have code introduce a warning
> > > yet push the fix for the warning via a completely different tree...
> > >
> > I mixed it up. Sorry. Some how I thought there was some other build
> > configuration thrown the same warning with memblock series and hence
> > suggested the patch to go via Andrew's tree.
>
> Yes, I too had assumed that the warning was caused by the bootmem
> patches in -mm.
>
> But it in fact occurs in Linus's current tree. I'll drop
> mm-arm-fix-arms-__ffs-to-conform-to-avoid-warning-with-no_bootmem.patch
> and I'll assume that rmk will fix this up at an appropriate time.

Thanks. I'll apply my version and then I can pull Santosh's nobootmem
changes (which I've had a couple of times already) without adding to
the warnings.

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