linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] bcm/CmHost.c: Fix noisy compile warnings

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Message-ID: <20141015195549.GR26918@mwanda>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:55:49 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@...escale.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mail@...ermatthias.de,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bcm/CmHost.c: Fix noisy compile warnings

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:01:41PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@...escale.com>
> 
> 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 preventing the driver to compile if CONFIG_64BIT
> is enabled, since the driver is known to be broken for 64 bit arch's.
> 

Oops.  Someone turned a Joe patch into a real patch.  Please enable
COMPILE_TEST for this.

regards,
dan carpenter

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