On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 07:17:34PM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote: > Hi Scott, > > I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve: > > [auto build test WARNING on driver-core/driver-core-testing] > [also build test WARNING on next-20200421] > [cannot apply to char-misc/char-misc-testing kselftest/next linus/master v5.7-rc2] > [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help > improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the > base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982] > > url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Scott-Branden/firmware-add-partial-read-support-in-request_firmware_into_buf/20200422-114528 > base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git 55623260bb33e2ab849af76edf2253bc04cb241f > reproduce: > # apt-get install sparse > # sparse version: v0.6.1-191-gc51a0382-dirty > make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig > make C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sorry, you asked me about this earlier. You will need to add -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ to enable these Sparse warnings. regards, dan carpenter