[PATCH] arm: fix sparse flags for build on 64bit machines
Stephen Boyd
sboyd at codeaurora.org
Mon Aug 7 13:56:44 PDT 2017
On 07/26/2017 11:26 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 07/26/2017 01:43 AM, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
>> By default sparse uses the characteristics of the build
>> machine to infer things like the wordsize.
>> This is fine when doing native builds but for ARM it's,
>> I suspect, very rarely the case and if the build are done
>> on a 64bit machine we get a bunch of warnings like:
>> 'cast truncates bits from constant value (... becomes ...)'
>>
>> Fix this by adding the -m32 flags for sparse.
>>
>> Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck at gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
>
>
Russell, is this good to put in the patch tracker?
Luc, can you submit this via Russell's patch tracking system (see
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/info.php)?
--
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum,
a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list