[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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