linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/hpet.c: integer constant is too large for "long" type

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:08:55 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	caglar@...dus.org.tr,
	Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/hpet.c: integer constant is too large for
	"long" type

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 14:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:19:44 +0300
> "S.__a__lar Onur" <caglar@...dus.org.tr> wrote:
> 
> > Following trivial patch silents
> > 
> > drivers/char/hpet.c:76: warning: integer constant is too large for "long" type
> > 
> > warning (with gcc-3.4.6)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: S.__a__lar Onur <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
> >  
> >  drivers/char/hpet.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c
> > index ba0e74a..23fadf5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/char/hpet.c
> > +++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c
> > @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_hpet = {
> >          .name           = "hpet",
> >          .rating         = 250,
> >          .read           = read_hpet,
> > -        .mask           = 0xffffffffffffffff,
> > +        .mask           = 0xffffffffffffffffLL,
> >          .mult           = 0, /*to be caluclated*/
> >          .shift          = 10,
> >          .flags          = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS,
> 
> hm, well, this does assume that cycle_t is implemented as long long (or
> unsigned long long, actually).  Which in turn assumes that u64 is
> implemented as [unsigned] long long.
> 
> Not all architectures use unsigned long long for u64: some use unsigned
> long.  They'll probably be OK with this change but I think I'll convert
> that into plain old "-1", which just works everywhere.

	.mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64)

should work

	tglx




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