Hello Igor M. Liplianin, The patch 141cc35e2d29: "V4L/DVB (13678): Add support for yet another DvbWorld, TeVii and Prof USB devices" from Nov 27, 2009, leads to the following Sparse warning: drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:288:36: error: bad constant expression CHECK drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:288:36: error: bad constant expression drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:305:44: error: bad constant expression drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:315:44: error: bad constant expression drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:381:53: error: bad constant expression drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:410:52: error: bad constant expression drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:443:36: error: bad constant expression drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:461:44: error: bad constant expression drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:543:47: error: bad constant expression drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:570:52: error: bad constant expression drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:582:52: error: bad constant expression CC [M] drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.o 284 switch (num) { 285 case 2: { 286 /* read */ 287 /* first write first register number */ 288 u8 ibuf[msg[1].len + 2], obuf[3]; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The kernel has an 8k stack so the worry is that len could larger than that. 289 obuf[0] = msg[0].addr << 1; 290 obuf[1] = msg[0].len; 291 obuf[2] = msg[0].buf[0]; 292 dw210x_op_rw(d->udev, 0xc2, 0, 0, 293 obuf, msg[0].len + 2, DW210X_WRITE_MSG); 294 /* second read registers */ 295 dw210x_op_rw(d->udev, 0xc3, 0xd1 , 0, 296 ibuf, msg[1].len + 2, DW210X_READ_MSG); 297 memcpy(msg[1].buf, ibuf + 2, msg[1].len); 298 299 break; 300 } regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html