linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] prism54usb: Fix hail of warnings on 64bit platforms

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Message-Id: <200703071221.19580.flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Date:	Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:21:12 -0500
From:	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prism54usb: Fix hail of warnings on 64bit platforms

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 11:40, Alan Cox wrote:
> If you want to cast a pointer to a small value then start by turning it
> into an unsigned long so the compiler knows what is going on.
>
I already have a fix for that - just haven't pushed it up to wireless-dev yet.

> Personally I find the whole approach used by this driver for types of
> registers (which are really USB register numbers) utterly perverse...
>
The same register offsets are used in the PCI driver since version 1 usb 
devices are really just the PCI device with a usb->pci bridge chip attached.

-Michael Wu

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