Re: [PATCH] leds: lm355x: Fix sparse warnings

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On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 18:50 -0700, Bryan Wu wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Friday, August 02, 2013 3:53 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 08:54 +0900, Jingoo Han wrote:
>> >> > On Friday, August 02, 2013 7:24 AM, Bryan Wu wrote:
>> >> > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > > > Don't mix different enum types to fix the following sparse warnings.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > drivers/leds/leds-lm355x.c:180:49: warning: mixing different enum types
>> >> > > > drivers/leds/leds-lm355x.c:180:49:     int enum lm355x_tx2  versus
>> >> > > > drivers/leds/leds-lm355x.c:180:49:     int enum lm355x_ntc
>> >> > > > drivers/leds/leds-lm355x.c:191:49: warning: mixing different enum types
>> >> > > > drivers/leds/leds-lm355x.c:191:49:     int enum lm355x_tx2  versus
>> >> > > > drivers/leds/leds-lm355x.c:191:49:     int enum lm355x_ntc
>> >>
>> >> > > Although there are some warning from sparse, changing a beautiful one
>> >> > > line code into multiple lines code looks not good to me. Is there any
>> >> > > better way to solve this issue.
>> >> >
>> >> > +CC Joe Perches,
>> >> >
>> >> > Hi Joe Perches,
>> >>
>> >> Hello.
>> >>
>> >> > Do you know any better way to fix sparse warnings, without changing a one
>> >> > line into multiple lines?
>> >>
>> >> sparse warnings are ignorable.
>> >> Ignore warnings when you know better than the tool.
>> >>
>> >> > Maybe if 'enum' is changed to '#define', it will not make the sparse
>> >> > warnings. But, it requires many code changes.
>> >>
>> >> That works but loses some type checking.
>> >>
>> >> Maybe you could add something like this
>> >> to the Makefile to make sparse not report
>> >> enum mismatches.
>> >
>> > Hi Joe Perches,
>> >
>> > I really appreciate your answer.
>> > It is very helpful. :-)
>> >
>> > I think that it is better to ignore these warnings
>> > without any code changes.
>> >
>> > Bryan, how about you?
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Jingoo Han
>> >
>> >>
>> >> ---
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/leds/Makefile b/drivers/leds/Makefile
>> >> index ac28977..d15716c 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/leds/Makefile
>> >> +++ b/drivers/leds/Makefile
>> >> @@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_LEDS_ASIC3)            += leds-asic3.o
>> >>  obj-$(CONFIG_LEDS_RENESAS_TPU)               += leds-renesas-tpu.o
>> >>  obj-$(CONFIG_LEDS_MAX8997)           += leds-max8997.o
>> >>  obj-$(CONFIG_LEDS_LM355x)            += leds-lm355x.o
>> >> +ifdef CONFIG_LEDS_LM355x
>> >> +CHECKFLAGS += -Wno-enum-mismatch
>>
>> I’m not sure about this. So if we turn on CONFIG_LEDS_LM355x, we will
>> ignore enum mismatch warning with sparse for other source code as well
>> as this leds-lm355x.c, right? Then we will miss to check other files's
>> enum mismatching?
>
> Yup.
>
> I didn't say it was perfect, I said "something like". ;)
>

Yeah, that's why I'm not sure abut this. -:))

> Right now there's no generic Makefile ability to have
> per-file CHECKFLAGS.
>
> Maybe you could add one if it appeals to you.
>
> Otherwise, it's a trivial sparse warning, ignore it.
>

I think we can probably ignore it now.
Anyway, thanks for the CHECKFLAGS trick.

-Bryan
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