From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>,
linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: 8250_gsc: fix printk format warning
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:51:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090529155148.GB28355@lackof.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090527225106.10fc9cc6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:51:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009 17:11:31 +0400 Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Fix this build warning:
> > drivers/serial/8250_gsc.c:44: warning: format '%lx' expects type
> > 'long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'resource_size_t'
> >
>
> The patch does more than fix a "warning". It fixes an actual error.
> The caller will prepare a 64-bit argument and the callee will print
> only 32 bits of it.
On parisc, AFAIK, GSC devices are always at a 32-bit addresses.
So whatever compiles clean is fine.
Please add "Reviewed by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>"
thanks,
grant
> > ---
> > drivers/serial/8250_gsc.c | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250_gsc.c b/drivers/serial/8250_gsc.c
> > index 418b4fe..a7b02a5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/serial/8250_gsc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/serial/8250_gsc.c
> > @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static int __init serial_init_chip(struct parisc_device *dev)
> > printk(KERN_INFO
> > "Serial: device 0x%lx not configured.\n"
> > "Enable support for Wax, Lasi, Asp or Dino.\n",
> > - dev->hpa.start);
> > + (unsigned long)dev->hpa.start);
>
> Nope. hpa.start can be u32 or u64. We need to cast that to the wider
> type so that it will correctly print in all circumstances.
>
> So I changed both patches to print with %ll and to cast to
> unsigned long long.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-18 13:11 [PATCH 2/2] serial: 8250_gsc: fix printk format warning Alexander Beregalov
2009-05-28 5:51 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-29 15:51 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
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