systemtap test suite compilation failed: include/linux/sysfs.h:449:2: argument 2 of 'kernfs_find_and_get' differ in signedness

[Josh Stone]

On 04/21/2014 07:15 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> writes:
> 
>> [...]
>> The systemtap test suite compilation failed with below error.
> 
> None of these errors appears to be triggered by systemtap code, but
> appear to represent problems in the kernel sources / configury.

It's true, we don't even call sysfs_get_dirent.  It does have a
signedness issue though, and our added -Werror doesn't help matters.

It's odd to see a warning for an unused function though.  Do the Linaro
patches add a call to this somewhere?