Hi Alexey, I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on groeck-staging/hwmon-next] [also build test WARNING on linus/master v5.19-rc6 next-20220715] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information] url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Alexey-Klimov/watchdog-add-driver-for-StreamLabs-USB-watchdog-device/20220717-000621 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git hwmon-next config: arc-randconfig-s032-20220717 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220717/202207170459.ZyslrGcE-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config) compiler: arceb-elf-gcc (GCC) 12.1.0 reproduce: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.4-39-gce1a6720-dirty # https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commit/897fbad1d3a4917a703454a9f79728c6af44d0a4 git remote add linux-review https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Alexey-Klimov/watchdog-add-driver-for-StreamLabs-USB-watchdog-device/20220717-000621 git checkout 897fbad1d3a4917a703454a9f79728c6af44d0a4 # save the config file mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-12.1.0 make.cross C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=arc SHELL=/bin/bash drivers/watchdog/ If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag where applicable Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) >> drivers/watchdog/streamlabs_wdt.c:70:23: sparse: sparse: restricted __le16 degrades to integer >> drivers/watchdog/streamlabs_wdt.c:96:16: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) @@ expected unsigned short [usertype] @@ got restricted __le16 [usertype] @@ drivers/watchdog/streamlabs_wdt.c:96:16: sparse: expected unsigned short [usertype] drivers/watchdog/streamlabs_wdt.c:96:16: sparse: got restricted __le16 [usertype] drivers/watchdog/streamlabs_wdt.c:97:16: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) @@ expected unsigned short [usertype] @@ got restricted __le16 [usertype] @@ drivers/watchdog/streamlabs_wdt.c:97:16: sparse: expected unsigned short [usertype] drivers/watchdog/streamlabs_wdt.c:97:16: sparse: got restricted __le16 [usertype] drivers/watchdog/streamlabs_wdt.c:98:16: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) @@ expected unsigned short [usertype] @@ got restricted __le16 [usertype] @@ drivers/watchdog/streamlabs_wdt.c:98:16: sparse: expected unsigned short [usertype] drivers/watchdog/streamlabs_wdt.c:98:16: sparse: got restricted __le16 [usertype] vim +70 drivers/watchdog/streamlabs_wdt.c 57 58 static bool nowayout = WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT; 59 module_param(nowayout, bool, 0); 60 MODULE_PARM_DESC(nowayout, "Watchdog cannot be stopped once started (default=" 61 __MODULE_STRING(WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT) ")"); 62 63 /* 64 * This function is used to check if watchdog actually changed 65 * its state to disabled that is reported in first two bytes of response 66 * message. 67 */ 68 static int usb_streamlabs_wdt_check_stop(u16 *buf) 69 { > 70 if (buf[0] != cpu_to_le16(STREAMLABS_CMD_STOP)) 71 return -EINVAL; 72 73 return 0; 74 } 75 76 static int usb_streamlabs_wdt_validate_response(u8 *buf) 77 { 78 /* 79 * If watchdog device understood the command it will acknowledge 80 * with values 1,2,3,4 at indexes 10, 11, 12, 13 in response message 81 * when response treated as 8bit message. 82 */ 83 if (buf[10] != 1 || buf[11] != 2 || buf[12] != 3 || buf[13] != 4) 84 return -EPROTO; 85 86 return 0; 87 } 88 89 static void usb_streamlabs_wdt_prepare_buf(u16 *buf, u16 cmd, 90 unsigned long timeout_msec) 91 { 92 /* 93 * remaining elements expected to be zero everytime during 94 * communication 95 */ > 96 buf[0] = cpu_to_le16(cmd); 97 buf[1] = cpu_to_le16(0x8000); 98 buf[3] = cpu_to_le16(timeout_msec); 99 buf[5] = 0x0; 100 buf[6] = 0x0; 101 } 102 -- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service https://01.org/lkp