[patch] remove unnessesary casts from drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c and kill two warnings

Jesper Juhl juhl-lkml at dif.dk
Wed Jan 5 04:45:38 EST 2005


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Greg Ungerer wrote:

> 
> Sorry for the slow response, I have been out on vacation the
> last couple of weeks :-)
> 
I Hope you had a nice vacation. :)

> 
> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > I took a look at the cause for these warnings in the 2.6.10 kernel,
> > 
> > drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c:361: warning: assignment makes pointer from
> > integer without a cast
> > drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c:395: warning: assignment makes pointer from
> > integer without a cast
> > 
> > and as far as I can see the casts in there (to unsigned long and back to
> > void*) are completely unnessesary ('virt' in 'struct map_info' is a void
> > __iomem *), and getting rid of those casts buys us a warning free build.
> > 
> > Are there any reasons not to apply the patch below?
> > Unfortunately I don't have hardware to test this patch, so it has been
> > compile tested only.
> 
> Looks good to me. I have applied it to my working tree.
> Do you want me to send it to Linus?
> 

I'd appreciate that.

-- 
Jesper Juhl





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