linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: clean up bitops-related warnings

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Message-ID: <474CA923.9080207@goop.org>
Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:32:51 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: clean up bitops-related warnings

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 November 2007 00:01:26 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
>> Add casts to appropriate places to silence spurious bitops warnings.
>>     
>
> Looks a bit ugly. Perhaps it would be better to define standard wrappers
>
> clear_bit_unaligned/any/bettername() etc. ?

Well, most of the casts are already in wrapper functions.  The
setup_64.c ones are ugly, but the following patch cleans them up.

    J

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