Hi Jagath, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on v5.17-rc8] [cannot apply to jic23-iio/togreg next-20220318] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Jagath-Jog-J/iio-accel-bma400-Add-support-for-buffer-and-step/20220320-021114 base: 09688c0166e76ce2fb85e86b9d99be8b0084cdf9 config: i386-randconfig-s001 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220320/202203201124.OLMstZaW-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config) compiler: gcc-9 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04) 9.4.0 reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.4-dirty # https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/8dc9a46d5af9a53917108ce2b103b3d9a50986a5 git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Jagath-Jog-J/iio-accel-bma400-Add-support-for-buffer-and-step/20220320-021114 git checkout 8dc9a46d5af9a53917108ce2b103b3d9a50986a5 # save the config file to linux build tree mkdir build_dir make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=i386 SHELL=/bin/bash drivers/iio/accel/ If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) >> drivers/iio/accel/bma400_core.c:906:13: sparse: sparse: restricted __le16 degrades to integer vim +906 drivers/iio/accel/bma400_core.c 891 892 static irqreturn_t bma400_interrupt(int irq, void *private) 893 { 894 struct iio_dev *indio_dev = private; 895 struct bma400_data *data = iio_priv(indio_dev); 896 int ret; 897 __le16 status; 898 899 mutex_lock(&data->mutex); 900 ret = regmap_bulk_read(data->regmap, BMA400_INT_STAT0_REG, &status, 901 sizeof(status)); 902 mutex_unlock(&data->mutex); 903 if (ret) 904 goto out; 905 > 906 if (status & BMA400_INT_DRDY_MSK) 907 iio_trigger_poll_chained(data->trig); 908 909 out: 910 return IRQ_HANDLED; 911 } 912 -- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service https://01.org/lkp