[PATCH] arm: fix sparse flags for build on 64bit machines

[Luc Van Oostenryck]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On 08/07, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> 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)?
>>
>
> It's been a while, and this isn't in linux-next or the patch
> tracker from what I can tell. I'll forward it along if nothing
> happens in the next couple days.

Sorry, I had forgot about it.
It's now added as patch 8701/1 in Russell's system.

-- Luc