From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>
To: Li Yang-r58472 <LeoLi@freescale.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] UCC Ether driver: kmalloc casting cleanups
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 06:26:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070108042657.GA18610@Ahmed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <989B956029373F45A0B8AF029708189006134E@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net>
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:12:28AM +0800, Li Yang-r58472 wrote:
> > From: Ahmed S. Darwish [mailto:darwish.07@gmail.com]
> >
> > Hi,
> > A kmalloc casting cleanup patch.
> > Signed-off-by: Ahmed Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
[..]
> > - (u32) (kmalloc((u32) (length + align),
> > - GFP_KERNEL));
> > + kmalloc((u32) (length + align), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +
> > if (ugeth->tx_bd_ring_offset[j] != 0)
> > ugeth->p_tx_bd_ring[j] =
[..]
> > - (u32) (kmalloc((u32) (length + align), GFP_KERNEL));
> > + kmalloc((u32) (length + align), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> NACK about the 2 clean-ups above. Cast from pointer to integer is
> required here.
Are the casts from pointer to integer just needed to suppress gcc
warnings or there's something technically important about them ?
I'll send the modified patch without the NACKed parts in minutes ..
--
Ahmed S. Darwish
http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-08 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-06 13:18 [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] UCC Ether driver: kmalloc casting cleanups Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-01-08 3:12 ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-01-08 4:26 ` Ahmed S. Darwish [this message]
2007-01-08 7:28 ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-01-08 4:54 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
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