linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: remove WILC

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Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2015 07:03:13 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:	Johnny Kim <johnny.kim@...el.com>,
	Rachel Kim <rachel.kim@...el.com>,
	Dean Lee <dean.lee@...el.com>,
	Chris Park <chris.park@...el.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: remove WILC_WFIDrvHandle

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 06:46:20PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> WILC_WFIDrvHandle was:
> 
> typedef struct {
>        s32 s32Dummy;
> } *WILC_WFIDrvHandle;
> 
> which basically meant a pointer to an integer.
> so removed the typedef and replaced all WILC_WFIDrvHandle with int *
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
> ---
> 
> replacement was done by using sed, just manually removed the typedef.
> build ok, before this change total 77 build warning, after this patch
> same number of warnings.

Which means this is not the correct fix for this :)

The driver is obviously broken for 64bit systems, and these warnings are
showing that, let's fix this "correctly" please.

sorry, I'm not going to take this patch.

greg k-h
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