Hello David, I'm sorry, the patch applies to the linux-next tree. In the future I will be very careful about sending patches that fix problems related to the merging of different trees. Best regards, Emil Goode On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 05:14:56PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > 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 ‘pingv6_init’: > > 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html