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    SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] dmaengine updates for 4.3-rc1'
    On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 11:13:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > Here is the dmaengine update for 4.3-rc1.
    >
    > Ugh. Something horrible happened here.
    >
    > > New devices added are:
    > > - dma controller in sun[457]i SoCs
    >
    > This thing is completely broken and causes a lot of nasty error
    > messages on 64-bit:
    >
    > drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c: In function ‘find_and_use_pchan’:
    > drivers/dma/sun4i-dma.c:241:32: warning: passing argument 1 of
    > ‘find_next_zero_bit’ from incompatible pointer type
    > [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
    > ...
    >
    > and this needs to be fixed.
    >
    > I've removed the COMPILE_TEST option for that config in the meantime,
    > because I refuse to have my screen fill up with warnings like this.
    >
    > COMPILE_TEST is fine for drivers that are supposed to compile cleanly
    > even if they might not work - and encouraging people to _keep_ them
    > compiling cleanly and get better compile test coverage.
    >
    > But it's not fine for stuff that causes big warnings and might hide
    > actual real problems.

    Sorry about this noise, I will get this fixed

    --
    ~Vinod


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