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

From: Santosh Shilimkar
Date: Mon Jan 13 2014 - 18:42:16 EST


On Monday 13 January 2014 06:33 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks Andrew and Russell for sorting out the patch queue.

Regards,
Santosh
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