Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Fix a build warning

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 08:19:05AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Yeah, I'm not advocating using casts, I was just saying "Oh, x86-64
> avoids requiring the caller of efi_call_phys* to perform the cast
> by doing it in the definition of efi_call*. That's why this is only
> affecting 32-bit."
>
> Cleaning this up would be nice. I think at this point, I'll apply
> Borislav's patch, and fix all this casting after v3.9 is released,
> since instead of just changing query_variable_info, we might as well
> change everything in efi_runtime_service_t so that it's consistent.

I wonder - if efi_runtime_service_t contained only void * like
efi_boot_services_t then we could drop all the casts too, right? Even in
the efi_call* macro calls too...

If you want me, I can take care of it after the merge window :)

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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