Hi Asai, FYI, there are new sparse warnings show up in tree: git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git for-3.9/drivers head: 3d6a87430e764cf4132710538139c10970929189 commit: 16c906e51c6f08a15763a85b5686e1ded35e77ab [1/3] mtip32xx: Add workqueue and NUMA support drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:3267:17: sparse: cast to restricted __le32 >> drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:4029:1: sparse: symbol 'mtip_workq_sdbf0' was not declared. Should it be static? >> drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:4030:1: sparse: symbol 'mtip_workq_sdbf1' was not declared. Should it be static? >> drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:4031:1: sparse: symbol 'mtip_workq_sdbf2' was not declared. Should it be static? >> drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:4032:1: sparse: symbol 'mtip_workq_sdbf3' was not declared. Should it be static? >> drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:4033:1: sparse: symbol 'mtip_workq_sdbf4' was not declared. Should it be static? >> drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:4034:1: sparse: symbol 'mtip_workq_sdbf5' was not declared. Should it be static? >> drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:4035:1: sparse: symbol 'mtip_workq_sdbf6' was not declared. Should it be static? >> drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:4036:1: sparse: symbol 'mtip_workq_sdbf7' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c: In function 'mtip_hw_read_flags': drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:2723:1: warning: the frame size of 1036 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c: In function 'mtip_hw_read_registers': drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:2700:1: warning: the frame size of 1044 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] Please consider folding the below diff :-) Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>