compile error on 3.10.1

From: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: compile error on 3.10.1
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 09:59:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36183925.Z4AeQk3t4j@balsa> (raw)

Hi, just trying to compile a vanilla kernel and building using
allmodconfig and using oldconfig with the debian 3.10.1 config as a base.

With the later config, I get the following:

  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.o
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c: In function âwil_print_ringâ:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:163:11: error: pointer targets in 
passing argument 5 of âhex_dump_to_bufferâ differ in signedness [-
Werror=pointer-sign]
           false);
           ^
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0,
                 from include/linux/cache.h:4,
                 from include/linux/time.h:4,
                 from include/linux/stat.h:18,
                 from include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:17:
include/linux/printk.h:361:13: note: expected âchar *â but argument is of type 
âunsigned char *â
 extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len,
             ^
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c: In function 
âwil_txdesc_debugfs_showâ:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:429:10: error: pointer targets in 
passing argument 5 of âhex_dump_to_bufferâ differ in signedness [-
Werror=pointer-sign]
          sizeof(printbuf), false);
          ^
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0,
                 from include/linux/cache.h:4,
                 from include/linux/time.h:4,
                 from include/linux/stat.h:18,
                 from include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:17:
include/linux/printk.h:361:13: note: expected âchar *â but argument is of type 
âunsigned char *â
 extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len,
             ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[5]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210] Error 2
make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2

There are also a bunch of warnings, most of the ones I could catch are
signedness related.

-- 
Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net