From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756152AbYE2UKi (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 16:10:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752027AbYE2UK2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 16:10:28 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:58214 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751479AbYE2UK2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 16:10:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:08:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Howells 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 Message-Id: <20080529130837.314b8410.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <17009.1212089124@redhat.com> References: <20080529121942.b6d768e7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080529181726.5396.79336.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <17009.1212089124@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 29 May 2008 20:25:24 +0100 David Howells wrote: > Andrew Morton 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.