On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 14:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > drivers/scsi/ips.c: In function `ips_scmd_buf_write': > drivers/scsi/ips.c:3665: warning: null argument where non-null required (arg 1) > drivers/scsi/ips.c: In function `ips_scmd_buf_read': > drivers/scsi/ips.c:3697: warning: null argument where non-null required (arg 2) > drivers/scsi/ips.c: In function `ips_register_scsi': > > Due to > > memcpy(IPS_SG_ADDRESS(&sg[i]), &cdata[xfer_cnt], > min_cnt); > > I guess the compiler is saying that if IPS_SG_ADDRESS indeed evaluates to > NULL (as it is designed to do), we have an oops. That's weird ... the compiler can't possibly be in a position to make that judgement call. We have lots of places where we return null if something goes wrong and the kernel oopses. The compiler certainly isn't warning about all of them. James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
