This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

video: Use bool instead int pointer for get_opt_bool() argument

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: video-use-bool-instead-int-pointer-for-get_opt_bool-argument.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 206fc20598157ce15597822cf01b94377e30075b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Daniel Wagner daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 10:18:32 +0100 Subject: video: Use bool instead int pointer for get_opt_bool() argument MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

From: Daniel Wagner daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de

commit 206fc20598157ce15597822cf01b94377e30075b upstream.

As the function name already indicates that get_opt_bool() parses for a bool. It is not a surprise that compiler is complaining about it when -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types is used:

drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c: In function ‘intelfb_setup’: drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c:353:39: error: passing argument 3 of ‘get_opt_bool’ from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] if (get_opt_bool(this_opt, "accel", &accel))

Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de Reported-by: Fengguang Wu fengguang.wu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen@ti.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static __inline__ int get_opt_int(const }

static __inline__ int get_opt_bool(const char *this_opt, const char *name, - int *ret) + bool *ret) { if (!ret) return 0;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de are

queue-4.4/video-use-bool-instead-int-pointer-for-get_opt_bool-argument.patch