From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:49:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v3] amba: consolidate PrimeCell magic In-Reply-To: References: <1313569846-22902-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Message-ID: <20110817184905.GA11221@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:03:57PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote: > > + cellid = amba_get_pid((void __iomem *)((u32)base & PAGE_MASK), SZ_4K); > > This produces a sparse warning. But, the same warning was present with the > old code. > > arch/arm/common/vic.c:353:49: warning: cast removes address space of expression That's prabably because casting from a pointer to a u32 (unsigned int) isn't the best thing to do. Casting to unsigned long is much better, and iirc doesn't provoke such a sparse warning.