Hi Viswas,
Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:
[auto build test WARNING on scsi/for-next]
[also build test WARNING on mkp-scsi/for-next v5.12-rc4 next-20210324]
[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/Viswas-G/pm80xx-updates/20210325...
base:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git for-next
config: x86_64-randconfig-s021-20210324 (attached as .config)
compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-22) 9.3.0
reproduce:
# apt-get install sparse
# sparse version: v0.6.3-277-gc089cd2d-dirty
#
https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/47c563cdbc763e6fdd8e08f49e1ea5066...
git remote add linux-review
https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
git fetch --no-tags linux-review Viswas-G/pm80xx-updates/20210325-005709
git checkout 47c563cdbc763e6fdd8e08f49e1ea5066bbf3c9b
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' ARCH=x86_64
If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp(a)intel.com>
sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c:742:33: sparse: sparse: cast to restricted __be32
drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c:742:33: sparse: sparse: cast to restricted __be32
drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c:742:33: sparse: sparse: cast to restricted __be32
drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c:742:33: sparse: sparse: cast to restricted __be32
drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c:742:33: sparse: sparse: cast to restricted __be32
drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c:742:33: sparse: sparse: cast to restricted __be32
> drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c:898:6: sparse: sparse: symbol
'mpiStateText' was not declared. Should it be static?
Please review and possibly fold the followup patch.
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