2008-02-15 13:42:18

by Geert Uytterhoeven

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Subject: [PATCH] ps3disk: Remove a superfluous cast

ps3disk: Remove a superfluous cast

As ps3disk is a ppc64-only driver, sector_t equals to unsigned long, and the
cast is not needed.

Reuse in another (possibly 32-bit) driver is protected by the safety net called
`compiler warning' (with the cast, it may silently truncate to 32-bit).
If sector_t ever changes, we will get a compiler warning as well (with the
cast, we won't).

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
---
drivers/block/ps3disk.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/ps3disk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ps3disk.c
@@ -102,8 +102,7 @@ static void ps3disk_scatter_gather(struc
dev_dbg(&dev->sbd.core,
"%s:%u: bio %u: %u segs %u sectors from %lu\n",
__func__, __LINE__, i, bio_segments(iter.bio),
- bio_sectors(iter.bio),
- (unsigned long)iter.bio->bi_sector);
+ bio_sectors(iter.bio), iter.bio->bi_sector);

size = bvec->bv_len;
buf = bvec_kmap_irq(bvec, &flags);

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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2008-03-03 04:20:20

by Christoph Hellwig

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Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] ps3disk: Remove a superfluous cast

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:42:03PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> ps3disk: Remove a superfluous cast
>
> As ps3disk is a ppc64-only driver, sector_t equals to unsigned long, and the
> cast is not needed.
>
> Reuse in another (possibly 32-bit) driver is protected by the safety net called
> `compiler warning' (with the cast, it may silently truncate to 32-bit).
> If sector_t ever changes, we will get a compiler warning as well (with the
> cast, we won't).

Yes, this sounds fine to me.

ACK.