Re: [PATCH] Fix zoran_card compilation warning

From: Ronald S. Bultje
Date: Sun Jan 15 2006 - 09:48:50 EST


Hi Linus/Andrew,

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 13:13 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> CC [M] drivers/media/video/zoran_card.o
> drivers/media/video/zoran_card.c: In function `zr36057_init':
> drivers/media/video/zoran_card.c:1053: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/media/video/zoran_card.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-2.6.15-git.orig/drivers/media/video/zoran_card.c 2006-01-12 20:34:54.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.15-git/drivers/media/video/zoran_card.c 2006-01-12 20:47:26.000000000 +0100
> @@ -995,7 +995,7 @@
> static int __devinit
> zr36057_init (struct zoran *zr)
> {
> - unsigned long mem;
> + u32 *mem;
> void *vdev;
> unsigned mem_needed;
> int j;
> @@ -1058,10 +1058,10 @@
> "%s: zr36057_init() - kmalloc (STAT_COM) failed\n",
> ZR_DEVNAME(zr));
> kfree(vdev);
> - kfree((void *)mem);
> + kfree(mem);
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
> - zr->stat_com = (u32 *) mem;
> + zr->stat_com = mem;
> for (j = 0; j < BUZ_NUM_STAT_COM; j++) {
> zr->stat_com[j] = 1; /* mark as unavailable to zr36057 */
> }
>

I support this change, please apply it. It's something left-over from
the time that all computers were 32-bit. Apart from this warning (which
nobody really cared about), the driver was already tested to work fine
on AMD64 computers in 64-bit mode.

Thank you,
Ronald

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