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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: ipv6: Fix incompatible pointer type warning
    Hello David,

    I'm sorry, the patch applies to the linux-next tree.
    In the future I will be very careful about sending patches that fix
    problems related to the merging of different trees.

    Best regards,

    Emil Goode

    On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 05:14:56PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
    > From: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
    > Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:21:08 +0200
    >
    > > This fixes the sparse warning below about assignment from
    > > incompatible pointer type.
    > >
    > > In the following commit the third argument in function ipv6_chk_addr
    > > was changed to const and struct nf_ipv6_ops was introduced with
    > > the third argument of .chk_addr beeing const.
    > >
    > > 2a7851bffb008ff4882eee673da74718997b4265
    > > ("netfilter: add nf_ipv6_ops hook to fix xt_addrtype with IPv6")
    > >
    > > The below commit introduced the warning as the third argument of
    > > dummy_ipv6_chk_addr and .ipv6_chk_addr in struct pingv6_ops is
    > > missing a const.
    > >
    > > 6d0bfe22611602f36617bc7aa2ffa1bbb2f54c67
    > > ("net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket.")
    > >
    > > Sparse output:
    > >
    > > net/ipv6/ping.c: In function ‘pingv6_init’:
    > > net/ipv6/ping.c:87:27: warning:
    > > assignment from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
    > >
    > > Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
    >
    > This only happens when you combine net with net-next, therefore your
    > patch isn't actually relevent to any real GIT tree.
    >
    > Please make this very clear in the future.
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