device property: Define type of PROPERTY_ENRTY_*() macros
authorAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:01:42 +0000 (18:01 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:02:12 +0000 (11:02 +0200)
commit592ea370bf1ce685bdb5bdf71eaf7e65190c551f
treeee2aed0129fd73db7746c3b4747986e544d7a8d2
parentc5fda2b8610b96f0035210952fb1dedcd73bf2ee
device property: Define type of PROPERTY_ENRTY_*() macros

[ Upstream commit c505cbd45f6e9c539d57dd171d95ec7e5e9f9cd0 ]

Some of the drivers may use the macro at runtime flow, like

  struct property_entry p[10];
...
  p[index++] = PROPERTY_ENTRY_U8("u8 property", u8_data);

In that case and absence of the data type compiler fails the build:

drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_dmi.c:79:29: error: Expected ; at end of statement
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_dmi.c:79:29: error: got {

Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/property.h