From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: pm8058: Make ledtype pointer sized type
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 10:14:03 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171201101351.3e57f2b1@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171130223406.GC2808@amd>
Hi Pavel,
On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 23:34:07 +0100 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> On Thu 2017-11-30 22:58:55, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> > On 11/30/2017 10:40 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > On Wed 2017-11-29 19:05:43, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > >> The pointer returned by of_device_get_match_data() doesn't have the same
> > >> size as u32 on 64-bit architectures, causing issues when compile testing
> > >> the driver on such platform. Make ledtype unsigned long instead, to
> > >> solve this problem.
> > >>
> > >> Fixes: 7f866986e705 ("leds: add PM8058 LEDs driver")
> > >> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
> > >
> > > Ummm... no?
> > >
> > > extern const void *of_device_get_match_data(const struct device *dev);
> > >
> > >
> > >> diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-pm8058.c b/drivers/leds/leds-pm8058.c
> > >> index a52674327857..cc2afe81720d 100644
> > >> --- a/drivers/leds/leds-pm8058.c
> > >> +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-pm8058.c
> > >> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
> > >> struct pm8058_led {
> > >> struct regmap *map;
> > >> u32 reg;
> > >> - u32 ledtype;
> > >> + unsigned long ledtype;
> > >
> > > Make it void *. u32 is buggy. unsigned long is merely ugly code. void
> > > * is not nice, but certainly better than unsigned long.
> >
> > unsigned long is correct, see below:
> >
> > static const struct of_device_id pm8058_leds_id_table[] = {
> > {
> > .compatible = "qcom,pm8058-led",
> > .data = (void *)PM8058_LED_TYPE_COMMON
> > },
> > {
> > .compatible = "qcom,pm8058-keypad-led",
> > .data = (void *)PM8058_LED_TYPE_KEYPAD
> > },
> > {
> > .compatible = "qcom,pm8058-flash-led",
> > .data = (void *)PM8058_LED_TYPE_FLASH
> > },
> > { },
> > };
> >
> > of_device_get_match_data will return PM8058_LED_TYPE_*
> > which clearly is a led type identifier.
> >
> > Thus unsigned long looks reasonable.
>
> Hmm. Ok. So u32 would actually make even more sense there (because
> PM8058_LED_TYPE_* does not really need to be 64-bit), but it would
> cause a warning.
>
> I don't like this. This fix actually makes code waste memory and is
> uglier.
>
> ...but we get a warning fix. So I don't like the patch, but it is an
> improvement...
I *think* you can get away with (u32)(unsigned long)ptr ...
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-30 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-30 0:35 linux-next: build warning after merge of the mfd tree Stephen Rothwell
2017-11-30 3:05 ` [PATCH] leds: pm8058: Make ledtype pointer sized type Bjorn Andersson
2017-11-30 8:29 ` Lee Jones
2017-11-30 8:31 ` Lee Jones
2017-11-30 22:02 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2017-12-01 7:56 ` Lee Jones
2017-12-01 20:35 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2017-11-30 9:18 ` Linus Walleij
2017-11-30 9:41 ` Lee Jones
2017-11-30 9:40 ` Pavel Machek
2017-11-30 21:58 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2017-11-30 22:34 ` Pavel Machek
2017-11-30 23:14 ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2017-12-01 0:28 ` Pavel Machek
2017-12-01 5:10 ` Bjorn Andersson
2017-11-30 22:18 ` Bjorn Andersson
2017-11-30 8:28 ` linux-next: build warning after merge of the mfd tree Lee Jones
2017-12-01 5:16 ` [PATCH v2] leds: pm8058: Silence pointer to integer size warning Bjorn Andersson
2017-12-01 7:57 ` Lee Jones
2017-12-01 8:36 ` Pavel Machek
2017-12-01 8:56 ` Lee Jones
2017-12-01 8:56 ` Lee Jones
2017-12-01 9:01 ` [GIT PULL] Immutable branch between MFD and LED due for the v4.16 merge window Lee Jones
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