[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "paride: make 'verbose' parameter an 'int' again" has been added to the 3.13.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    paride: make 'verbose' parameter an 'int' again

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt38.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 906046fcc1de98e4a4059b14734326e6fa43323c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:53:29 -0700
Subject: paride: make 'verbose' parameter an 'int' again

commit dec63a4dec2d6d01346fd5d96062e67c0636852b upstream.

gcc-6.0 found an ancient bug in the paride driver, which had a
"module_param(verbose, bool, 0);" since before 2.6.12, but actually uses
it to accept '0', '1' or '2' as arguments:

  drivers/block/paride/pd.c: In function 'pd_init_dev_parms':
  drivers/block/paride/pd.c:298:29: warning: comparison of constant '1' with boolean expression is always false [-Wbool-compare]
   #define DBMSG(msg) ((verbose>1)?(msg):NULL)

In 2012, Rusty did a cleanup patch that also changed the type of the
variable to 'bool', which introduced what is now a gcc warning.

This changes the type back to 'int' and adapts the module_param() line
instead, so it should work as documented in case anyone ever cares about
running the ancient driver with debugging.

Fixes: 90ab5ee94171 ("module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc)")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim at cyberelk.net>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/paride/pd.c | 4 ++--
 drivers/block/paride/pt.c | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/paride/pd.c b/drivers/block/paride/pd.c
index 19ad8f0..897b6b9 100644
--- a/drivers/block/paride/pd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/paride/pd.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
 */
 #include <linux/types.h>

-static bool verbose = 0;
+static int verbose = 0;
 static int major = PD_MAJOR;
 static char *name = PD_NAME;
 static int cluster = 64;
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ enum {D_PRT, D_PRO, D_UNI, D_MOD, D_GEO, D_SBY, D_DLY, D_SLV};
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(pd_mutex);
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pd_lock);

-module_param(verbose, bool, 0);
+module_param(verbose, int, 0);
 module_param(major, int, 0);
 module_param(name, charp, 0);
 module_param(cluster, int, 0);
diff --git a/drivers/block/paride/pt.c b/drivers/block/paride/pt.c
index 2596042..ada4505 100644
--- a/drivers/block/paride/pt.c
+++ b/drivers/block/paride/pt.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@

 */

-static bool verbose = 0;
+static int verbose = 0;
 static int major = PT_MAJOR;
 static char *name = PT_NAME;
 static int disable = 0;
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static int (*drives[4])[6] = {&drive0, &drive1, &drive2, &drive3};

 #include <asm/uaccess.h>

-module_param(verbose, bool, 0);
+module_param(verbose, int, 0);
 module_param(major, int, 0);
 module_param(name, charp, 0);
 module_param_array(drive0, int, NULL, 0);
--
2.7.4