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Date:	Wed, 9 Jul 2008 15:47:53 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	alan@...hat.com, Markus.Lidel@...dowconnect.com, vvs@...ru,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark i2o config broken on 64-bit platforms.

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:35:47 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> Mark i2o config broken on 64-bit platforms as it generates these:
> 
> In file included from drivers/message/i2o/config-osm.c:39:
> drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c: In function 'i2o_cfg_passthru':
> drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c:889: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
> drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c:945: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
> 
> which are apparently non-trivial to fix (eg: inserting a cast through unsigned
> long is not correct according to Linus).  This would be due to struct
> sg_simple_element only having a 32-bit addr_bus value.
> 
> There are also a number of "TODO 64bit fix" comments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>


NAK - it appears to be broken for 64bit user space only
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