From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: make snd_kcontrol_new name a normal string
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:03:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5h4kmg537s.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201026165715.3723704-1-arnd@kernel.org>
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:52:18 +0100,
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> When building with W=2, there are lots of warnings about the
> snd_kcontrol_new name field being an array of 'unsigned char'
> but initialized to a string:
>
> include/sound/soc.h:93:48: warning: pointer targets in initialization of 'const unsigned char *' from 'char *' differ in signedness [-Wpointer-sign]
>
> Make it a regular 'char *' to avoid flooding the build log with this.
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
I'm fine to apply this, but I thought we agreed to ignore pointer
signedness intentionally? There are lots of such places and we were
fed up in the past when gcc complained a lot about those...
thanks,
Takashi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-26 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-26 16:52 [PATCH] ALSA: make snd_kcontrol_new name a normal string Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-26 17:03 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2020-10-26 19:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-26 19:29 ` Takashi Iwai
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