[PATCH] gpio: mvebu: fix warning when building on 64-bit

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed Jan 11 07:47:46 PST 2017


On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:53 PM, Russell King
<rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> Casting a pointer to an int is not portable, and provokes a compiler
> warning.  Cast to unsigned long instead to avoid the warning.
>
> drivers/gpio/gpio-mvebu.c: In function 'mvebu_gpio_probe':
> drivers/gpio/gpio-mvebu.c:662:17: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
>    soc_variant = (int) match->data;
>                  ^
>
> This will be needed when building gpio-mvebu for Armada 7k/8k ARM64
> SoCs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> ---
> Linus,
>
> I don't think this is necessary to push into -rc, as its not yet used
> on ARM64 - GPIO support is not yet present in the DTS files, and the
> Kconfig doesn't allow the driver to be built on ARM64.  Hence, please
> queue for the next merge window as a low priority fix.

Fair enough, queued for next. Thanks!

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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