linux-kernel - Re: Zillions of warnings in -next

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Message-Id: <4AE7258D0200005A000576F6@sinclair.provo.novell.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:53:33 -0600
From:	"Gregory Haskins" <ghaskins@...ell.com>
To:	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Zillions of warnings in -next

>>> On 10/27/2009 at 11:25 AM, in message
<20091027152530.75ca60e4@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Alan Cox
<alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: 
> I was thinking "what a lot of new warnings". Then I dug a little deeper
> and it seems that someone never bothered to try and build
> drivers/net/vbus-enet.c on a 32bit system.
> 
> So would you mind fixing the 27 new warnings introduced ?
> 
> Alan

I just did a 32-bit build and indeed reproduced the warnings.  However, the warnings
appear to be dubious as the code is properly (afaict) annotated with explicit casts, and
I believe they are doing what I intended.

Basically I have structures that are always 64 bit (so we can have a mixed-mode 32-bit
guest talk to a 64-bit hypervisor, for instance).  Therefore I am casting between native
and u64, but the compiler doesn't like this.  Does anyone have any suggestions on ways
to fix this so the compiler is happy?

For instance:

struct foo {
   u64 bar;
}

xmit_foo(void *ptr)
{
 struct foo f;

 f->bar = (u64)ptr; /* generates warning */
}

Kind Regards,
-Greg

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