[PATCH v3] amba: consolidate PrimeCell magic
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Aug 17 14:49:05 EDT 2011
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:03:57PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> > + cellid = amba_get_pid((void __iomem *)((u32)base & PAGE_MASK), SZ_4K);
>
> This produces a sparse warning. But, the same warning was present with the
> old code.
>
> arch/arm/common/vic.c:353:49: warning: cast removes address space of expression
That's prabably because casting from a pointer to a u32 (unsigned int)
isn't the best thing to do. Casting to unsigned long is much better,
and iirc doesn't provoke such a sparse warning.
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