Re: n2 RNG driver bogus cast removal

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Aug 09 2010 - 10:26:20 EST


On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 12:45:14AM -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
>
> 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 Dave. I'll revert it for now.

However, it probably makes sense to change priv into a void *
as most drivers use it as a pointer instead of an integer.

Thanks,
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/