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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: SIMRAN SINGHAL <singhalsimran0@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net,
	Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	oleg.drokin@intel.com, marvin24@gmx.de,
	outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Fixed compilation error
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:13:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1488572013.2179.34.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALrZqyMKJvhQMAdjtLWWKTtxOP+icRZ6bctB0bTtzA8gJi+wNA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 21:35 +0530, SIMRAN SINGHAL wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 17:05 +0530, simran singhal wrote:
> > > Fixed compilation warning in lustre/lustre/llite/range_lock.c
> > 
> > Really?  What compilation warning was removed?
> 
> CC [M]  drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.o
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.c: In function
> ‘mgc_set_info_async’:
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.c:1036:115: warning:
> format ‘%s’ expects argument of type ‘char *’, but argument 3 has type
> ‘void *’ [-Wformat=]
> 
> I was getting this warning because of changing (char *)val to val
> where val is a pointer to void.
> So I fixed this by reverting this change.

Wrong thought.

Your original defective patches were not applied and
this is a simple revision to those defective patches
that do not include defects.

As Julia has said, you should use the imperative and
describe the change that this patch series implements.

i.e:

Subject: [PATCH V3 0/5] staging: Remove unnecessary casts

Casting void pointers to another undereferenced type is
generally unnecessary so remove the unnecessary casts.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-03 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-03 11:35 [PATCH v3 0/5] Fixed compilation error simran singhal
2017-03-03 11:35 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] staging: nvec: Remove unnecessary cast on void pointer simran singhal
2017-03-03 11:35 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] staging: lustre: " simran singhal
2017-03-03 11:35 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] staging: lustre: " simran singhal
2017-03-03 11:35 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] staging: rts5208: " simran singhal
2017-03-03 11:35 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] staging: rtl8712: " simran singhal
2017-03-03 15:50 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Fixed compilation error Joe Perches
2017-03-03 16:05   ` SIMRAN SINGHAL
2017-03-03 16:15     ` [Outreachy kernel] " Julia Lawall
2017-03-03 16:37       ` SIMRAN SINGHAL
2017-03-03 20:13     ` Joe Perches [this message]

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