On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:23 PM Rasmus Villemoes
<li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:
> On 21/02/2019 07.30, George Spelvin wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
> > +     (void)base;
> > +#else
> > +     lsbits |= (unsigned int)(size_t)base;
>
> The kernel usually casts pointers to long or unsigned long. If some
> oddball arch has size_t something other than unsigned long, this would
> give a "warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size". So
> just cast to unsigned long, and drop the cast to unsigned int.

The proper integer equivalent of a pointer is uintptr_t, so please use
that instead of size_t.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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