netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] 3c515: Fix warning when building

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Date:	Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:31:57 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <ricec2@....edu>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] 3c515: Fix warning when building

On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 00:03 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Colin Rice <ricec2@....edu>
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:59:46 +0000
> 
> > -		outl((int) (skb->data), ioaddr + Wn7_MasterAddr);
> > +		outl((size_t) (skb->data), ioaddr + Wn7_MasterAddr);
> 
> outl() takes an "int" not a "size_t".   You're avoiding the warning,
> but on 64-bit, for example, you're silently allowing the compiler
> to accept chopping off the top 32-bits of the 64-bit pointer address
> off.
> 
> The warning is valid, this code won't work in certain environments,
> and killing the warning is just papering over the problem such that
> it will never get addressed properly.
> 
> I'm not applying patches like this, sorry.

The driver is writing a virtual address as the DMA address.  The
hardware is an ISA device and will presumably ignore the top 8 bits,
thus doing the virt-to-bus conversion for us.  Very efficient - so long
as this runs on a PC with no more than 16 MB RAM.

For other chips with a DMA descriptor ring, the driver uses
isa_virt_to_bus() which is less efficient but no more correct.

Maybe the driver should just be deleted, as it doesn't look like it's
actually usable any more.

Ben.

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