linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] Werror: Fix casting wrong size integer to pointer

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Message-Id: <20080529130837.314b8410.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 29 May 2008 13:08:37 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	bunk@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Werror: Fix casting wrong size integer to pointer

On Thu, 29 May 2008 20:25:24 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > yup, what Linus said.  This one's been irritating me for years, and I
> > got close to tempting Markus into fixing it before he departed the
> > scene.  But it remains, as a little "might be busted on 64 bit" reminder.
> 
> Is it worth making the driver only available for non-64-bit arches?
> 

I don't know whether anyone is using it on 64-bit machines.  If they
are, disabling it would probably wake someone up.

Perhaps it all happens to work OK on 64-bit.  I just don't know, sorry.
A bit of lkml/bugzilla/google data mining would reveal the status, I
guess.
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