linux-kernel - [PATCH] nicstar: Fix a bogus casting warning

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Date:	Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:27:20 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, chas@....nrl.navy.mil
Subject: [PATCH] nicstar: Fix a bogus casting warning

Not enough to make Nicstar 64bit friendly but got squashed in passing so
might as well be applied

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.19-rc1-mm1/drivers/atm/nicstar.c linux-2.6.19-rc1-mm1/drivers/atm/nicstar.c
--- linux.vanilla-2.6.19-rc1-mm1/drivers/atm/nicstar.c	2006-10-13 15:10:06.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc1-mm1/drivers/atm/nicstar.c	2006-10-13 17:17:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -2759,7 +2759,7 @@
 {
    ns_dev *card;
    pool_levels pl;
-   int btype;
+   long btype;
    unsigned long flags;
 
    card = dev->dev_data;
@@ -2859,7 +2859,7 @@
       case NS_ADJBUFLEV:
          if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
 	    return -EPERM;
-         btype = (int) arg;	/* an int is the same size as a pointer */
+         btype = (long) arg;	/* a long is the same size as a pointer or bigger */
          switch (btype)
 	 {
 	    case NS_BUFTYPE_SMALL:

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