linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] phy: ralink: fix 64-bit build warning

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Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:19:51 +0530
From:   Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Harvey Hunt <harvey.hunt@...tec.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: ralink: fix 64-bit build warning

Greg,

On Thursday 24 August 2017 05:00 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 07:50:46PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>> Greg,
>>
>> On Wednesday 23 August 2017 07:09 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> Casting between an 'int' and a pointer causes a warning on
>>> 64-bit architectures in compile-testing this driver:
>>>
>>> drivers/phy/ralink/phy-ralink-usb.c: In function 'ralink_usb_phy_probe':
>>> drivers/phy/ralink/phy-ralink-usb.c:195:13: error: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Werror=pointer-to-int-cast]
>>>
>>> This changes the code to cast to uintptr_t instead. This is
>>> guaranteed to do what we want on all architectures and avoids
>>> the warning.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 2411a736ff09 ("phy: ralink-usb: add driver for Mediatek/Ralink")
>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>>
>> Can you pick this patch to fix the compiler warning.
> 
> Can you resend it to me in a format that I can apply it in?

sent them now.

Thanks
Kishon