Re: [PATCH 1/3] video: fbdev: vt8623fb: suppress build warning

[Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>]

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On 03/12/14 20:29, Prabhakar Lad wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> wrote:
>> On 27/11/14 00:07, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
>>> this patch fixes following build warning:
>>> drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c: In function ‘vt8623_pci_probe’:
>>> drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c:734:23: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
>>>   par->state.vgabase = (void __iomem *) vga_res.start;
>>>                        ^
>>> Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c
>>> index 5c7cbc6..ea7f056 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c
>>> @@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ static int vt8623_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
>>>
>>>       pcibios_bus_to_resource(dev->bus, &vga_res, &bus_reg);
>>>
>>> -     par->state.vgabase = (void __iomem *) vga_res.start;
>>> +     par->state.vgabase = (void __iomem *) (unsigned long) vga_res.start;
>>
>> This does look quite ugly... Where does the warning come from in the
>> first place. Isn't vga_res.start (resource_size_t) the size of a pointer?
>>
> Yes looks ugly, I am not sure what you meant from 'where does this warning
> come from' its in the commit message.

I meant why is there a warning at all. With a quick glance,
vga_res.start is the size of a pointer. So the sizes of the integer and
the pointer should be the same. But the warning still says "of different
size".

 Tomi



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