Hi Krzysztof, I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on hwmon/hwmon-next] [also build test WARNING on robh/for-next v5.14 next-20210909] [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/Krzysztof-Adamski/Add-per-channe... base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git hwmon-next config: i386-randconfig-s001-20210908 (attached as .config) compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-22) 9.3.0 reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.4-dirty # https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/50e1eb6bf222a2fb0df304033f2aaed07... git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Krzysztof-Adamski/Add-per-channel-properies-support-in-tmp421/20210907-214724 git checkout 50e1eb6bf222a2fb0df304033f2aaed075fd76b2 # save the attached .config to linux build tree make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=i386 SHELL=/bin/bash drivers/hwmon/ 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