[PATCH v2] bcm/CmHost.c: Fix noisy compile warnings

Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com
Wed Oct 15 20:26:07 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 22:55 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:01:41PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
> > 
> > The Beceem WIMAX was generating compile warnings on 64bit machines,
> > which were:
> > 
> > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c: In function ‘StoreCmControlResponseMessage’:
> > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1503:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> >    (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl(
> >    ^
> > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1546:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> >    (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl(
> >    ^
> > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1564:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> >    (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl(
> > 
> > This resolves the issue by preventing the driver to compile if CONFIG_64BIT
> > is enabled, since the driver is known to be broken for 64 bit arch's.
> > 
> 
> Oops.  Someone turned a Joe patch into a real patch.  Please enable
> COMPILE_TEST for this.

I agree with Joe, that COMPILE_TEST is not useful for this driver.

> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 


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