Re: n2 RNG driver bogus cast removal

From: Vasiliy Kulikov
Date: Mon Aug 09 2010 - 15:33:00 EST


On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 00:45 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> Kulikov, can you at least build test your patches? Casts are not
> always incorrect, particularly when private cookies are "unsigned
> long" as is the case here:
>
> drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c: In function ân2rng_data_readâ:
> drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c:390: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
Ahh, shame on me... I'd compiled this on x86 and looked through error
log, I wrongly pointed out that there is no error at this line. As I see
now, this tactic is incorrect. I'd not do this any more, sorry for
this...

>
> Herbert, please revert this change, thanks. And I suspect there
> might be more of these hwrng driver duds that went into the tree,
> it's worth checking out. :-)
>
> Thanks.
>
> commit 8b9cfdca9c52f7d39c3ccfac1668e31c20c9f42e
> Author: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon Jul 5 21:25:06 2010 +0800
>
> hwrng: n2-drv - remove casts from void*
>
> Remove unnesessary casts from void*.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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