Hi Ahmad, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on hwmon/hwmon-next] [also build test WARNING on linus/master linux/master v5.7 next-20200611] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Ahmad-Fatoum/watchdog-f71808e_wd... base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git hwmon-next config: i386-randconfig-s001-20200612 (attached as .config) compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-13) 9.3.0 reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.1-250-g42323db3-dirty # save the attached .config to linux build tree make W=1 C=1 ARCH=i386 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' 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