Re: [patch] remove unnessesary casts from drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c and kill two warnings

From: Jörn Engel
Date: Mon Dec 27 2004 - 12:23:12 EST


On Sun, 26 December 2004 22:13:48 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> I took a look at the cause for these warnings in the 2.6.10 kernel,
>
> drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c:361: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c:395: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
>
> and as far as I can see the casts in there (to unsigned long and back to
> void*) are completely unnessesary ('virt' in 'struct map_info' is a void
> __iomem *), and getting rid of those casts buys us a warning free build.
>
> Are there any reasons not to apply the patch below?
> Unfortunately I don't have hardware to test this patch, so it has been
> compile tested only.

Neither do I, but the patch looks fine to me. Give Greg a grace
period, in case he knows better. And interpret this as a personal
opinion, not as dwmw2's final word.

If it helps:
Acked-by: Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Jörn

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