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

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Oct 15 2014 - 15:56:15 EST


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.

regards,
dan carpenter

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