From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm/CmHost.c: Fix noisy compile warnings
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:34:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141015123431.GA23154@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413375999-10210-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 05:26:39AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> The Beceem WIMAX was generating compile warnings on 64bit machines,
> which were:
>
> drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c: In function ‘StoreCmControlResponseMessage’:
> drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1503:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl(
> ^
> drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1546:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl(
> ^
> drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1564:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl(
>
> This resolves the issue by generating 64bit friendly code.
>
As far as I can tell this isn't a bugfix, it just hides a real 64 bit
bug. Let's leave the bug how it is so it's easy to see from a long way
away.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-15 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-15 12:26 [PATCH] bcm/CmHost.c: Fix noisy compile warnings Jeff Kirsher
2014-10-15 12:33 ` Joe Perches
2014-10-15 12:34 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-10-15 12:59 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-10-15 13:03 ` Jeff Kirsher
2014-10-15 16:11 ` Joe Perches
2014-10-15 17:42 ` Jeff Kirsher
2014-10-15 18:24 ` Fabio Estevam
2014-10-15 18:54 ` Jeff Kirsher
2014-10-15 18:56 ` Joe Perches
2014-10-15 18:56 ` Fabio Estevam
2014-10-15 19:53 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-10-15 20:03 ` Joe Perches
2014-10-16 7:48 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-10-16 7:54 ` Jeff Kirsher
2014-10-15 21:41 ` Matthias Beyer
2014-10-15 22:19 ` Jeff Kirsher
2014-10-15 22:24 ` Matthias Beyer
2014-10-15 22:41 ` Jeff Kirsher
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