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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:50:18 -0600
From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
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Subject: Re: ping [PATCH v3] WAN: Adding support for Lantiq PEF2256 E1 chipset
 (FALC56)
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On 01/19/14 13:34, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 19:07 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> Pinging this watch as we got no feedback since 22 Nov, although we have taken
>> into account reviews from v1 and v2.
>>
>> The patch adds WAN support for Lantiq FALC56 - PEF2256 E1 Chipset.
...
>> +static ssize_t fs_attr_Tx_TS_store(struct device *dev,
>> +			struct device_attribute *attr,  const char *buf,
>> +			size_t count)
>> +{
>> +	struct net_device *ndev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>> +	struct pef2256_dev_priv *priv = dev_to_hdlc(ndev)->priv;
>> +	unsigned long value;
>> +	int ret = kstrtoul(buf, 16, (long int *)&value);
>
> unportable cast

How is that not portable? It's long == pointer on Linux, which supports 
LP64 on all targets. (As do BSD, MacOSX, android, and iOS.)

   http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/64bit.html
   http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html

Do you mean it's not portable to Windows?

   http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/31/363790.aspx

Rob
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