[PATCH v2 06/10] ARM: davinci: don't use broken ntosd2_init_i2c

Sekhar Nori nsekhar at ti.com
Thu Aug 9 14:23:26 EDT 2012


Hi Arnd,

On 8/9/2012 1:30 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On second thought, there is probably no use in keeping the broken function
> around, and we can just kill it off. If someone wants to add an i2c
> device to the bus, they can always add the init code back as well.
> 
> 8<-----
> Subject: ARM: davinci: don't use broken ntosd2_init_i2c
> 
> ntosd2_init_i2c walks the ntosd2_i2c_info array, which it expects to
> be populated with at least one member. gcc correctly warns about
> the out-of-bounds access here.
> 
> Since this can not possibly work, it's better to disable i2c
> support entirely on this board.
> 
> Without this patch, building davinci_all_defconfig results in:
> 
> arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-neuros-osd2.c: In function 'davinci_ntosd2_init':
> arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-neuros-osd2.c:187:20: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com>
> Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com>
> Cc: Andrey Porodko <panda at chelcom.ru>

Acked-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com>

Thanks,
Sekhar



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