linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Fix a build warning

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Date:	Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:20:10 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Fix a build warning

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:17:59PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> We could either change all fields in efi_system_table or the
> efi_call_phys* prototypes. x86-64 already casts to (void *) when
> calling efi_call0(), etc, though I'm not entirely sure why void * is
> needed.

Well, sizeof(void *) == sizeof(unsigned long) for both bitness so size
shouldn't be the reason.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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