linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch: x86: boot: compressed: eboot: fix cast warnings on 32b platforms

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Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:19:52 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Stefan Hasko <hasko.stevo@...il.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: x86: boot: compressed: eboot: fix cast warnings on
 32b platforms

On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 09:34:16AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yes, but stylistically: we don't use uintptr_t in Linux, but rather
> "unsigned long".

Hmmkay,

Stefan, care to redo your patch and sum up this discussion to the commit
message for further reference?

Btw, there is some funny usage of uintptr_t in
arch/x86/include/asm/xor_avx.h and since this is not an uapi header,
they need to be converted to unsigned long too, methinks.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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