On 30.09.2022 22:15:59, Stefan Mätje wrote:
> I would like to resume the efforts to bring this driver in the Linux
> kernel after being kicked off track in February by another project.
\o/
> I did a lot of the changes on the driver you recommended, but some
> stuff is not yet clear to me. Please see my comments in-line of the
> email below.
>
> My local developement is at the moment rebased to
> linux-can-next:master on 7b584fbb36362340a2d9cfe459e447619eecebea.
> Should I send a V7 of the patch (rebased to another commit)? How
> should I proceed?
You can use latest net-next/main as base version.
> You have commented on many type casts that they would not be needed.
> But all of them had been introduced by me due to warnings of the
> compiler in the style of "warning: conversion from ‘u32’ {aka
> ‘unsigned int’} to ‘u8’ {aka ‘unsigned char’} may change value
> [-Wconversion]". These are triggered by building the driver with "W=3"
> as recommended in kernel documentation.
Oh? Is there a recommendation for W=3? I can only find a W=1:
| https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.0/source/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst#L235
> Should these warnings generally be ignored and the casts be removed
> then?
regards,
Marc
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