On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> 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 <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> 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 <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> 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
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