linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ata: libahci: Make host flags unsigned long

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Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 2014 08:52:06 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Cc:	Antoine Ténart 
	<antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: libahci: Make host flags unsigned long

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 01:39:41PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
> 
> Commit 725c7b570fda (ata: libahci_platform: move port_map parameters
> into the AHCI structure) moves flags into the struct ahci_host_priv's
> .flags field, which causes compiler warnings on 64-bit builds when that
> value is cast to a void * pointer. Rather than adding additional casting
> to silence the warning, turn the flags field into a unsigned long.

Unless we're talking about a lot of places where such casting is
necessary, I'd actually prefer to keep the flags uint and use explicit
casting.  How many are we talking about?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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