From: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:21:08 +0200 > This fixes the sparse warning below about assignment from > incompatible pointer type. > > In the following commit the third argument in function ipv6_chk_addr > was changed to const and struct nf_ipv6_ops was introduced with > the third argument of .chk_addr beeing const. > > 2a7851bffb008ff4882eee673da74718997b4265 > ("netfilter: add nf_ipv6_ops hook to fix xt_addrtype with IPv6") > > The below commit introduced the warning as the third argument of > dummy_ipv6_chk_addr and .ipv6_chk_addr in struct pingv6_ops is > missing a const. > > 6d0bfe22611602f36617bc7aa2ffa1bbb2f54c67 > ("net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket.") > > Sparse output: > > net/ipv6/ping.c: In function ʽpingv6_initʼ: > net/ipv6/ping.c:87:27: warning: > assignment from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default] > > Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx> This only happens when you combine net with net-next, therefore your patch isn't actually relevent to any real GIT tree. Please make this very clear in the future. ?τθΊ{.nΗ+?·????+%?Λ?±ιέΆ??w?Ί{.nΗ+?·?zΉή?ψΪ?+h?Οβ?Ψ^n?rʽφ¦zΛ?λh?¨θΪ&£ϋΰzΏδzΉή?ϊ+?Κ+zf£ʼ·h??§~??Ϋi??ο?κ??κηz_θ?ζj:+v?¨ώ)ί£ψm