> -----Original Message----- > From: David Miller [mailto:davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 4:50 PM > To: Haiyang Zhang > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; KY Srinivasan; olaf@xxxxxxxxx; > jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH net] hyperv: Fix a compiler warning in netvsc_send() > > From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:25:50 -0700 > > > Fixed: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size > > > > The Hyper-V hosts always use 64 bit request id. The guests can have 32 > > or 64 bit pointers which equal to the ulong type size. So we cast it to ulong > type. > > And, assigning 32bit integer to 64 bit variable works fine. > > > > The VMBus returns the same id in the completion packet. But the value > > has no effect on the host side. > > > > Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Such build warning fixes are not appropriate for 'net' at this time, and this > patch does not apply to 'net-next', so I'm dropping this entirely. OK. I will re-submit it to net-next after the recent patch causing the warning is merged into the net-next tree. Thanks, - Haiyang _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
