Re: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:2954:11: warning: cast to pointer

From: Nick Warne
Date: Thu Sep 08 2016 - 12:00:22 EST


On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 08:29:37 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 05:38:52PM +0100, Nick Warne wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > kernel build 4.4.20 - I am still seeing this warning:
> >
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c: In function
> > âintel_plane_obj_offsetâ:
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:2969:11: warning: cast to
> > pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
> > offset = (unsigned char *)vma->node.start;
> >
> > but according to here:
> >
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7897461/
> >
> > this has been fixed up. Any reason why it hasn't in the latest
> > 4.4.x longterm tree?
>
> What is the commit id that fixed this in Linus's tree?

Took me a while to find it if this is it - a bit of a re-write in the
whole file I think:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/44eb0cb9620c6a53ec8e7073262e2af8079b727f

Thanks,

Nick
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