Re: [PATCH] staging: bcm: fix pointer-integer size mismatch warnings

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue Feb 04 2014 - 03:52:01 EST


On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 05:26:57PM +0900, SeongJae Park wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:59:23PM +0900, SeongJae Park wrote:
> >> Fix the pointer-integer size mismatch warnings below:
> >> drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c: In function âStoreCmControlResponseMessageâ:
> >> drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1387:39: warning: cast to pointer from
> >> integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> >> pstAddIndication->psfAuthorizedSet = (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *)ntohl((ULONG)pstAddIndication->psfAuthorizedSet);
> >> ^
> >> drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1426:37: warning: cast to pointer from
> >> integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> >> pstAddIndication->psfAdmittedSet = (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *)ntohl((ULONG)pstAddIndication->psfAdmittedSet);
> >> ^
> >> drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1440:35: warning: cast to pointer from
> >> integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> >> pstAddIndication->psfActiveSet = (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *)ntohl((ULONG)pstAddIndication->psfActiveSet);
> >> ^
> >
> > No. You haven't fixed the bug, you've just silenced the warning so now
> > someone has to spent hours and hours looking for it when it comes time
> > to write a proper fix. Don't do that.
> >
>
> I had thought silencing warning may be better in someway for some people.
> But, anyway, now I agree and respect your opinion. Thank you for the opinion :)

Don't worry about it. You're not the first person to try submit that
patch.

When I last looked at it, this driver only worked under 32 bits and
there were other 64 bit bugs as well besides this one.

regards,
dan carpenter

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