[PATCH v3] amba: consolidate PrimeCell magic

Tixy tixy at yxit.co.uk
Thu Aug 18 06:08:07 EDT 2011


On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 19:49 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 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.

Is there any reason not to use uintptr_t for things like this?





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