Re: [Compile Warning] 2.6.30-rc8 build

["Michael S. Zick" <lkml@morethan.org>]

On Fri June 5 2009, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
>  > I can't argue with gcc on this one either:
>  > 
>  > drivers/scsi/sd.c: In function 'sd_read_capacity':
>  > drivers/scsi/sd.c:1451: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
>  > 
>  > It reads to my eyes as if the function can never
>  > select read_capacity_16 for very large devices.
> 
> The code is:
> 
> 		if ((sizeof(sdkp->capacity) > 4) &&
> 		    (sdkp->capacity > 0xffffffffULL)) {
> 
> sdkp->capacity is a sector_t, and <linux/types.h> has:
> 
> 	#ifdef CONFIG_LBD
> 	typedef u64 sector_t;
> 	typedef u64 blkcnt_t;
> 	#else
> 	typedef unsigned long sector_t;
> 	typedef unsigned long blkcnt_t;
> 	#endif
> 
> so if you don't set CONFIG_LBD on a 32-bit architecture, then you are
> correct that sd.c won't ever hit the READ_CAPACITY(16) case, and the
> kernel won't be able to handle large SCSI disks.
> 
> 

Perhaps then let gcc coherce the test value into a local sector_t holder
to make the warning go away (it would still be protected by the >4 thing).

Not a problem here - NetBooks don't (yet) come with that big a disk.  ;)

Thanks
Mike