Re: [PATCH 1/2] input: cyapa: fix sparse warning issue of incorrect type in assiggment

From: Jeremiah Mahler
Date: Fri Jan 23 2015 - 04:56:29 EST


Dudley,

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:57:42AM +0000, Dudley Du wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeremiah Mahler [mailto:jmmahler@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 2015?1?22? 17:31
> > To: Dudley Du
[...]
> > > struct gen5_bl_metadata_row_params {
> > > __le16 size;
> > > -__le16 maximun_size;
> > > +__le16 maximum_size;
> > I don't think sparse cares about variable names.
> > Be sure to note these changes in your log.
>
> This is a spell mistake issue, not sparse warning issue.
> Thanks.
>
That is fine but just be sure to note that in the log. I get suspicious
when there are changes that aren't mentioned in the log.

[...]
> > > +
> > > +if (app_integrity->flash_array_id != 0x00 ||
> > > + get_unaligned_be16(&app_integrity->row_number) != 0x01ff) {
> > I could be wrong but it looks there are a lot of changes un-related to
> > the sparse warning. I am not opposed to this per se but they should be
> > noted in the log message.
>
> Understood.
> Indeed, excepted the spell error, the purpose of the changes are aimed to fix the warning issue.
> Do I need to add the log message and re-submit the patch or in other method ot change this?
> Thanks.
>
Once I was able to reproduce the error there were quite a few. So this
number of changes seems reasonable.

The fix is already in -next so I don't think it is a big enough problem
to worry about.

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- Jeremiah Mahler
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