linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix up a multitude of ACPI compiler warnings on x86

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Message-Id: <20060929163827.d77a12c8.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:38:27 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	len.brown@...el.com, Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix up a multitude of ACPI compiler warnings on x86_64

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:18:52 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> wrote:

> > 
> > acpi-fix-printk-format-warnings.patch was submitted to the ACPI developers
> > on August 14 and on September 25 but remains unmerged.
> 
> Len and I discussed that patch some.  The question about it is:
> why does gcc report this at all?  Is this a gcc problem or are
> we misreading it somehow?
> 
>  drivers/acpi/tables/tbget.c: In function 'acpi_tb_get_this_table':
> drivers/acpi/tables/tbget.c:326: warning: format '%X' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'long unsigned int'
> 
> drivers/acpi/tables/tbrsdt.c: In function 'acpi_tb_validate_rsdt':
> drivers/acpi/tables/tbrsdt.c:189: warning: format '%X' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'long unsigned int'
> 
> Why does it think that sizeof(struct X) is long unsigned int?
> (and only on 64-bit)

hm, strange.  No warning at all on 32-bit.

Don't know.  But the patch is correct.
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