The patch titled fbdev: kill sparse warning in deferred IO has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fbdev-kill-sparse-warning-in-deferred-io.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fbdev: kill sparse warning in deferred IO From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> Kill the following in fb_defio.c: drivers/video/fb_defio.c:40:43: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) drivers/video/fb_defio.c:40:43: expected void *addr drivers/video/fb_defio.c:40:43: got char [noderef] *screen_base<asn:2> The framebuffer memory of these types of devices are allocated from system RAM. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/fb_defio.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/video/fb_defio.c~fbdev-kill-sparse-warning-in-deferred-io drivers/video/fb_defio.c --- a/drivers/video/fb_defio.c~fbdev-kill-sparse-warning-in-deferred-io +++ a/drivers/video/fb_defio.c @@ -32,12 +32,14 @@ static struct page* fb_deferred_io_nopag unsigned long offset; struct page *page; struct fb_info *info = vma->vm_private_data; + /* info->screen_base is in System RAM */ + void *screen_base = (void __force *) info->screen_base; offset = (vaddr - vma->vm_start) + (vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT); if (offset >= info->fix.smem_len) return NOPAGE_SIGBUS; - page = vmalloc_to_page(info->screen_base + offset); + page = vmalloc_to_page(screen_base + offset); if (!page) return NOPAGE_OOM; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adaplas@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch vt8623fb-new-framebuffer-driver-for-via-vt8623.patch vt8623fb-fix-compile-warnings.patch vt8623fb-fix-compile-error-if-config_mtrr=n.patch arkfb-new-framebuffer-driver-for-ark-logic-cards.patch arkfb-fix-compiler-warnings.patch arkfb-fix-compile-error-if-config_mtrr=n.patch arkfb-new-framebuffer-driver-for-ark-logic-cards-fix.patch svgalib-move-fb_get_caps-to-svgalib.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html