netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: mdio-octeon: Fix build error and Kconfig warning

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Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:06:00 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        driverdevel <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>,
        kernel-build-reports@...ts.linaro.org,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Linux-Next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mdio-octeon: Fix build error and Kconfig warning

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:52 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
> However, there are lots of type/cast warnings in both mdio-octeon and mdio-cavium:
>
> ../drivers/net/phy/mdio-octeon.c: In function ‘octeon_mdiobus_probe’:
> ../drivers/net/phy/mdio-octeon.c:48:3: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
>    (u64)devm_ioremap(&pdev->dev, mdio_phys, regsize);
>    ^

cavium_mdiobus.register_base should be "void __iomem *" instead of "u64",
and the cast should be dropped.

> In file included from ../drivers/net/phy/mdio-octeon.c:14:0:
> ../drivers/net/phy/mdio-cavium.h:113:48: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
>  #define oct_mdio_writeq(val, addr) writeq(val, (void *)addr)
>                                                 ^

... which allows to drop this cast as well.

Casts are evil, and usually a sign that you're doing something wrong.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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