The patch titled arcfb: kill sparse warning has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was arcfb-kill-sparse-warning.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: arcfb: kill sparse warning From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> The framebuffer memory is allocated from system RAM (vmalloc'ed). Add __force annotations. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/arcfb.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/video/arcfb.c~arcfb-kill-sparse-warning drivers/video/arcfb.c --- a/drivers/video/arcfb.c~arcfb-kill-sparse-warning +++ a/drivers/video/arcfb.c @@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ static void arcfb_lcd_update_page(struct ks108_set_yaddr(par, chipindex, upper/8); linesize = par->info->var.xres/8; - src = par->info->screen_base + (left/8) + (upper * linesize); + src = (unsigned char __force *) par->info->screen_base + (left/8) + + (upper * linesize); ks108_set_xaddr(par, chipindex, left); bitmask=1; @@ -477,7 +478,7 @@ static ssize_t arcfb_write(struct file * if (count) { char *base_addr; - base_addr = info->screen_base; + base_addr = (char __force *)info->screen_base; count -= copy_from_user(base_addr + p, buf, count); *ppos += count; err = -EFAULT; @@ -603,7 +604,7 @@ static int arcfb_remove(struct platform_ if (info) { unregister_framebuffer(info); - vfree(info->screen_base); + vfree((void __force *)info->screen_base); framebuffer_release(info); } return 0; _ 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