[PATCH] kexec-tools, ppc64: fix build error on ppc64
Michael Neuling
mikey at neuling.org
Wed May 5 13:35:21 EST 2010
In message <20100505023316.GF13035 at verge.net.au> you wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:48:53AM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > 6adc05c6e3fdbc8b9f5d915af78ca05d0a09cb17 "some kexec MIPS
> > improvements" broke pp64 as it turned on -Werror for all archs.
> >
> > This fixes the warning and hence ppc64 building.
>
> Thanks.
>
> While I'm very much in favour of using -Werror for testing
> and these kind of patches are great, I think that -Werror
> by default is rather silly. We can't control what will be
> a warning in the future and sometimes fixing warnings isn't
> appropriate - for instance there are warnings in fs2dt.c at
> the moment, that is currently considered an upstream problem.
>
> In short, this patch is great. But I plan to also remove -Werror
> as the default now that its been brought to my attention.
Cool. My second patch should do this for all but MIPS.
Mikey
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
> > ---
> > I've posted a second patch to fix the issue of changing one archs
> > Makefile, effecting all other archs.
> >
> > kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > Index: kexec-tools/kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- kexec-tools.orig/kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c
> > +++ kexec-tools/kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c
> > @@ -357,7 +357,8 @@ static void putprops(char *fn, struct di
> > * Compare function used to sort the device-tree directories
> > * This function will be passed to scandir.
> > */
> > -static int comparefunc(const void *dentry1, const void *dentry2)
> > +static int comparefunc(const struct dirent **dentry1,
> > + const struct dirent **dentry2)
> > {
> > char *str1 = (*(struct dirent **)dentry1)->d_name;
> > char *str2 = (*(struct dirent **)dentry2)->d_name;
> >
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