From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262072AbVFUOV3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:21:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261972AbVFUOUt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:20:49 -0400 Received: from smtp04.auna.com ([62.81.186.14]:65430 "EHLO smtp04.retemail.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262077AbVFUOT1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:19:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:19:26 +0000 From: "J.A. Magallon" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pointer cast warnings in scripts/ To: Roman Zippel Cc: Pierre Ossman , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, LKML References: <42B7F740.6000807@drzeus.cx> <42B80AF9.2060708@drzeus.cx> <42B80F40.8000609@drzeus.cx> In-Reply-To: (from zippel@linux-m68k.org on Tue Jun 21 15:20:01 2005) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.3.3 Message-Id: <1119363566l.11384l.0l@werewolf.able.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Auth-Info: Auth:LOGIN IP:[83.138.212.68] Login:jamagallon@able.es Fecha:Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:19:26 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06.21, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > > Should I extract the changes for bkbits and make a reversed patch? > > No, go through the warnings, analyze each one and choose an appropriate > solution. You might want to keep notes, which you can post with the > changelogs, so one can reproduce, why a certain change was done. > I started doing that, and the more warnings are related to strxxx functions. They are defined as receiving 'char *' pointers, I do not know why someone started to fill the sources with 'signed char *' for text strings... I did not finish the cleaup due to lack of time, but I was planning to continue... -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.12-jam1 (gcc 4.0.1 (4.0.1-0.2mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0))