netdev - Re: [PATCH 10/34]bnx2x: Compilation issue on IA64

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Message-ID: <1232700147.31321.7.camel@lb-tlvb-eliezer>
Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:42:27 +0200
From:	"Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	"bhutchings@...arflare.com" <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/34]bnx2x: Compilation issue on IA64

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 13:10 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:44:33 +0200
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 09:07 -0800, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 18:43 +0200, Eilon Greenstein wrote:
> > > > Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>
> > [...]  
> > > >  #ifdef BNX2X_STOP_ON_ERROR
> > > >  	fp->tpa_queue_used |= (1 << queue);
> > > > -#ifdef __powerpc64__
> > > > +#if (defined __powerpc64__) || (defined _ASM_IA64_TYPES_H)
> > > >  	DP(NETIF_MSG_RX_STATUS, "fp->tpa_queue_used = 0x%lx\n",
> > > >  #else
> > > >  	DP(NETIF_MSG_RX_STATUS, "fp->tpa_queue_used = 0x%llx\n",
> > > 
> > > Or you could cast the value to unsigned long long and remove this
> > > fragile #ifdef.
> > > 
> > You are right - it is a better solution. The issue is that this uglier
> > solution is already in, and I hate to re-send this patch just for this.
> > Can we have this one applied and I will re visit it in net-next?
> 
> There is no reason to crap up any driver with arch ifdefs, absolutely
> none, for this typing issue.
> 
> The whole point is that we're trying to get all of the arch's to use
> the same type for u64 in the kernel, so that these warnings can be
> cleared away very easily.
> 
> Live with the warnings meanwhile until this is all sorted out.

I can live with that, but I was wondering if this change is something
that you can consider:
-#ifdef __powerpc64__
+#ifdef _ASM_GENERIC_INT_L64_H

My problem is that in the mean time, the driver has this __powerpc64__
ifdef in it.


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