[Gnewsense-dev] Re: [loongson-PATCH-v1 03/27] fix-error: incompatiable argument type of clear_user

[Ralf Baechle]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 05:50:01AM +0800, address@hidden wrote:

> From: Wu Zhangjin <address@hidden>
> 
> there are lots of warnings about the macro: clear_user in linux-mips.
> 
> the type of the second argument of access_ok should be (void __user *),
> but there is an un-needed (unsigned long) conversion before __cl_addr,
> so, remove the (unsigned long) will fix this problem.

I assume you're talking about sparse warnings, not gcc warnings?

Either way, access_ok() is defined to take pointer arguments, so patch
applied.  Thanks!

  Ralf