On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:52 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> However, there are lots of type/cast warnings in both mdio-octeon and mdio-cavium:
>
> ../drivers/net/phy/mdio-octeon.c: In function ‘octeon_mdiobus_probe’:
> ../drivers/net/phy/mdio-octeon.c:48:3: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
> (u64)devm_ioremap(&pdev->dev, mdio_phys, regsize);
> ^
cavium_mdiobus.register_base should be "void __iomem *" instead of "u64",
and the cast should be dropped.
> In file included from ../drivers/net/phy/mdio-octeon.c:14:0:
> ../drivers/net/phy/mdio-cavium.h:113:48: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> #define oct_mdio_writeq(val, addr) writeq(val, (void *)addr)
> ^
... which allows to drop this cast as well.
Casts are evil, and usually a sign that you're doing something wrong.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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