Hi Daniel, I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on drm-tip/drm-tip] [cannot apply to drm-intel/for-linux-next drm-exynos/exynos-drm-next tegra-drm/drm/tegra/for-next drm/drm-next v5.14-rc2 next-20210723] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Daniel-Vetter/drm-i915-Check-for... base: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-tip drm-tip config: x86_64-rhel-8.3-kselftests (attached as .config) compiler: gcc-10 (Ubuntu 10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04) 10.3.0 reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.3-341-g8af24329-dirty # https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/acd1c2f5060c5b06036bf6d0950141ee5... git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Daniel-Vetter/drm-i915-Check-for-nomodeset-in-i915_init-first/20210724-033145 git checkout acd1c2f5060c5b06036bf6d0950141ee55906a24 # save the attached .config to linux build tree make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash drivers/gpu/drm/i915/ If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp(a)intel.com&gt; sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) Please review and possibly fold the followup patch. --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@lists.01.org