Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754190AbaLDN3q (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 08:29:46 -0500 Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com ([209.85.217.181]:63159 "EHLO mail-lb0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753952AbaLDN3o convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 08:29:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <548013B0.4080108@ti.com> References: <1417039645-5313-1-git-send-email-prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> <547EF8CC.9030502@ti.com> <548007CA.7010900@ti.com> <20141204074641.GB4311@sudip-PC> <548013B0.4080108@ti.com> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 14:29:42 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: w23sdLn3ReTxZrzGyM6zteQIkOk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] video: fbdev: vt8623fb: suppress build warning From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Tomi Valkeinen Cc: Prabhakar Lad , Sudip Mukherjee , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , LFBDEV , LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > On 04/12/14 09:46, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:05:46AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: >>> On 03/12/14 20:29, Prabhakar Lad wrote: >>>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: >>>>> On 27/11/14 00:07, Lad, Prabhakar wrote: >>>>>> this patch fixes following build warning: >>>>>> drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c: In function ‘vt8623_pci_probe’: >>>>>> drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c:734:23: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast] >>>>>> par->state.vgabase = (void __iomem *) vga_res.start; >>>>>> ^ >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar >>>>>> --- >>>>>> drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c | 2 +- >>>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>>>> >>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c >>>>>> index 5c7cbc6..ea7f056 100644 >>>>>> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c >>>>>> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.c >>>>>> @@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ static int vt8623_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id) >>>>>> >>>>>> pcibios_bus_to_resource(dev->bus, &vga_res, &bus_reg); >>>>>> >>>>>> - par->state.vgabase = (void __iomem *) vga_res.start; >>>>>> + par->state.vgabase = (void __iomem *) (unsigned long) vga_res.start; >>>>> >>>>> This does look quite ugly... Where does the warning come from in the >>>>> first place. Isn't vga_res.start (resource_size_t) the size of a pointer? >>>>> >>>> Yes looks ugly, I am not sure what you meant from 'where does this warning >>>> come from' its in the commit message. >>> >>> I meant why is there a warning at all. With a quick glance, >>> vga_res.start is the size of a pointer. So the sizes of the integer and >>> the pointer should be the same. But the warning still says "of different >>> size". >> >> poking my nose into your discussion. >> I tried to see the warning, and I re-compiled like make W=1 M=drivers/video/fbdev/ (before that make clean M=drivers/video/fbdev was done) >> I can see warning with many other files, but drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb.o was quiet and there was no warning. >> I tested with next=20141203. >> did i miss something in checking the warning ? > > I don't see the warning either when compiling for arm or x86_64. On what > architecture do you see the warning? On 32-bit systems with PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y, resource_size_t is u64, while pointers are still 32-bit. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/