RE: [PATCH] net: via-rhine: Fix compiler warning re: pointer casting on 64bit

From: David Laight
Date: Thu May 01 2014 - 05:33:06 EST


From: Alexey Charkov [mailto:alchark@xxxxxxxxx]
...
> This patch removes the cast altogether, and instead stores an actual
> pointer to u8 in match->data. All instances of 'revision' are also
> unified to u8 instead of an assortment of different integer types,
> in line with the definition of 'revision' in struct pci_dev.
...
> +static u8 vt8500_revision = 0x84;
> static struct of_device_id rhine_of_tbl[] = {
> - { .compatible = "via,vt8500-rhine", .data = (void *)0x84 },
> + { .compatible = "via,vt8500-rhine", .data = &vt8500_revision },
> { } /* terminate list */

Actually the above looks strange.
Why does the vt8500 have a revision number of 0x84 ?
Surely it should be 0x85, or even 0x8500 (or decimal 85000).

David