platform_driver/of_platform_driver compile warning in fsldma.c

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Apr 10 00:40:58 EST 2011


On Apr 8, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Ira W. Snyder wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 04:12:13AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> Grant,
>> 
>> I'm being lazy, can you give any quick insight on the following compile warning:
>> 
>> drivers/dma/fsldma.c:1457:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
>> drivers/dma/fsldma.c: In function 'fsldma_init':
>> drivers/dma/fsldma.c:1468:2: warning: passing argument 1 of 'platform_driver_register' from incompatible pointer type
>> include/linux/platform_device.h:124:12: note: expected 'struct platform_driver *' but argument is of type 'struct of_platform_driver *'
>> drivers/dma/fsldma.c: In function 'fsldma_exit':
>> drivers/dma/fsldma.c:1473:2: warning: passing argument 1 of 'platform_driver_unregister' from incompatible pointer type
>> include/linux/platform_device.h:125:13: note: expected 'struct platform_driver *' but argument is of type 'struct of_platform_driver *'
>> 
> 
> The "struct of_platform_driver" needs to be changed to a
> "struct platform_driver". Just remove the "of_" prefix, the structure
> initialization is correct. I sent a patch for this yesterday to LKML. The
> title is: fsldma: fix build warning caused by of_platform_device changes
> 
> Ira

Ira, thanks.  Hopefully it will get picked up.  If not let me know.

- k


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