From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/34]bnx2x: Compilation issue on IA64 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:16:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090125.181626.229897179.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1231955073.11301.161.camel@lb-tlvb-eliezer> <20090114.131058.248785392.davem@davemloft.net> <1232700147.31321.7.camel@lb-tlvb-eliezer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: eilong@broadcom.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45818 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751004AbZAZCQY (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:16:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1232700147.31321.7.camel@lb-tlvb-eliezer> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Eilon Greenstein" Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:42:27 +0200 > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 13:10 -0800, David Miller wrote: > > From: "Eilon Greenstein" > > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:44:33 +0200 > > > > > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 09:07 -0800, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 18:43 +0200, Eilon Greenstein wrote: > > > > > Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein > > > [...] > > > > > #ifdef BNX2X_STOP_ON_ERROR > > > > > fp->tpa_queue_used |= (1 << queue); > > > > > -#ifdef __powerpc64__ > > > > > +#if (defined __powerpc64__) || (defined _ASM_IA64_TYPES_H) > > > > > DP(NETIF_MSG_RX_STATUS, "fp->tpa_queue_used = 0x%lx\n", > > > > > #else > > > > > DP(NETIF_MSG_RX_STATUS, "fp->tpa_queue_used = 0x%llx\n", > > > > > > > > Or you could cast the value to unsigned long long and remove this > > > > fragile #ifdef. > > > > > > > You are right - it is a better solution. The issue is that this uglier > > > solution is already in, and I hate to re-send this patch just for this. > > > Can we have this one applied and I will re visit it in net-next? > > > > There is no reason to crap up any driver with arch ifdefs, absolutely > > none, for this typing issue. > > > > The whole point is that we're trying to get all of the arch's to use > > the same type for u64 in the kernel, so that these warnings can be > > cleared away very easily. > > > > Live with the warnings meanwhile until this is all sorted out. > > I can live with that, but I was wondering if this change is something > that you can consider: > -#ifdef __powerpc64__ > +#ifdef _ASM_GENERIC_INT_L64_H > > My problem is that in the mean time, the driver has this __powerpc64__ > ifdef in it. Just use %ll unconditionally and cast the argument to long long. Then you don't need any ifdefs at all.