From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
bunk@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Werror: Fix casting wrong size integer to pointer
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:08:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080529130837.314b8410.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17009.1212089124@redhat.com>
On Thu, 29 May 2008 20:25:24 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > yup, what Linus said. This one's been irritating me for years, and I
> > got close to tempting Markus into fixing it before he departed the
> > scene. But it remains, as a little "might be busted on 64 bit" reminder.
>
> Is it worth making the driver only available for non-64-bit arches?
>
I don't know whether anyone is using it on 64-bit machines. If they
are, disabling it would probably wake someone up.
Perhaps it all happens to work OK on 64-bit. I just don't know, sorry.
A bit of lkml/bugzilla/google data mining would reveal the status, I
guess.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-29 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-29 18:17 [PATCH 1/6] Werror: Fix casting wrong size integer to pointer David Howells
2008-05-29 18:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] Werror: Hide epca_setup() as it's unused David Howells
2008-05-29 18:35 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-29 18:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] Werror: Remove iiEllisCleanup() " David Howells
2008-05-29 18:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-29 19:07 ` David Howells
2008-05-29 18:35 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-29 18:17 ` [PATCH 4/6] Werror: Hide warnings on static module device tables David Howells
2008-05-29 19:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-29 19:41 ` David Howells
2008-05-29 19:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-29 18:17 ` [PATCH 5/6] Werror: Remove the packed attribute from PofTimStamp_tag in the hysdn driver David Howells
2008-05-29 19:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-29 18:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] Werror: Provide a configuration option to enable -Werror David Howells
2008-05-29 18:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-29 18:29 ` [PATCH 1/6] Werror: Fix casting wrong size integer to pointer Linus Torvalds
2008-05-29 18:48 ` David Howells
2008-05-29 19:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-29 19:25 ` David Howells
2008-05-29 20:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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