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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:34:31 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> Cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm/CmHost.c: Fix noisy compile warnings On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 05:26:39AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > The Beceem WIMAX was generating compile warnings on 64bit machines, > which were: > > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c: In function ‘StoreCmControlResponseMessage’: > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1503:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast] > (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl( > ^ > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1546:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast] > (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl( > ^ > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1564:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast] > (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl( > > This resolves the issue by generating 64bit friendly code. > As far as I can tell this isn't a bugfix, it just hides a real 64 bit bug. Let's leave the bug how it is so it's easy to see from a long way away. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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