[PATCH net] hyperv: Fix a compiler warning in netvsc_send()

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri Apr 19 20:50:06 UTC 2013


From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com>
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 at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>

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.



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