linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Add intermediate cast to uintptr

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:41:54 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Add intermediate cast to uintptr_t
 before casting to pointer

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:21:56AM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> 於 一，2012-07-30 於 16:33 +0100，Mark Brown 提到：
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:47:13AM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:

> > >  		_notifier_call_chain(rdev, REGULATOR_EVENT_VOLTAGE_CHANGE,
> > > -				     (void *)best_val);
> > > +				     (void *)(uintptr_t)best_val);

> > This also looks problematic, you should never need to cast a pointer to
> > or from void.

> If I remove the cast to (void *), I got below build warning:

>   CC      drivers/regulator/core.o
> drivers/regulator/core.c: In function '_regulator_do_set_voltage':
> drivers/regulator/core.c:2183:10: warning: passing argument 3 of
> '_notifier_call_chain' makes pointer from integer without a cast
> [enabled by default]
> drivers/regulator/core.c:94:13: note: expected 'void *' but argument is
> of type 'long unsigned int'

So the above cast probably isn't right...  you shouldn't need a double
cast here.
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