linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/hpet.c: integer constant is too large for "long" type

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Message-ID: <46A525C0.4010805@googlemail.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:03:44 +0200
From:	Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	caglar@...dus.org.tr,
	Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/hpet.c: integer constant is too large for
 "long" type

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:19:44 +0300
> "S.__a__lar Onur" <caglar@...dus.org.tr> wrote:
> 
>> Following trivial patch silents
>>
>> drivers/char/hpet.c:76: warning: integer constant is too large for "long" type
>>
>> warning (with gcc-3.4.6)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: S.__a__lar Onur <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
>>  
>>  drivers/char/hpet.c |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c
>> index ba0e74a..23fadf5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/hpet.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c
>> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_hpet = {
>>          .name           = "hpet",
>>          .rating         = 250,
>>          .read           = read_hpet,
>> -        .mask           = 0xffffffffffffffff,
>> +        .mask           = 0xffffffffffffffffLL,
>>          .mult           = 0, /*to be caluclated*/
>>          .shift          = 10,
>>          .flags          = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS,
> 
> hm, well, this does assume that cycle_t is implemented as long long (or
> unsigned long long, actually).  Which in turn assumes that u64 is
> implemented as [unsigned] long long.
> 
> Not all architectures use unsigned long long for u64: some use unsigned
> long.  They'll probably be OK with this change but I think I'll convert
> that into plain old "-1", which just works everywhere.
> 

Bob Picco fixed this already -> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/242


Regards,

Gabriel
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