Re: [PATCH v2] bcm/CmHost.c: Fix noisy compile warnings

[Jeff Kirsher]

On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 10:52 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 01:26:07PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 22:55 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:01:41PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > > > From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > The Beceem WIMAX was generating compile warnings on 64bit machines,
> > > > which were:
> > > > 
> > > > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c: In function âStoreCmControlResponseMessageâ:
> > > > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1503:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> > > >    (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl(
> > > >    ^
> > > > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1546:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> > > >    (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl(
> > > >    ^
> > > > drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c:1564:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> > > >    (struct bcm_connect_mgr_params *) ntohl(
> > > > 
> > > > This resolves the issue by preventing the driver to compile if CONFIG_64BIT
> > > > is enabled, since the driver is known to be broken for 64 bit arch's.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Oops.  Someone turned a Joe patch into a real patch.  Please enable
> > > COMPILE_TEST for this.
> > 
> > I agree with Joe, that COMPILE_TEST is not useful for this driver.
> 
> If we remove the driver fine, but if we keep the driver then we should
> do enable any QA testing we can.

Sorry, after thinking about this more, I think that Joe and I jumped to
the conclusion that adding COMPILE_TEST meant to add " || COMPILE_TEST"
which would generate the same compile warnings we see now, especially
when doing allmodconfig.  But, if we added " && COMPILE_TEST", along
with the other Kconfig change, then I am fine with that.

So yes, I am on the same page with you.  If we end up keeping the
driver, then I will respin the patch to add && COMPILE_TEST.  I will
wait to re-spin based on whether Greg accepts the patch to remove the
driver or not.

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