> -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Perches [mailto:j...@perches.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:31 PM > To: Haiyang Zhang > Cc: David Miller; net...@vger.kernel.org; KY Srinivasan; o...@aepfle.de; > jasow...@redhat.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH net] hyperv: Fix a compiler warning in netvsc_send() > > On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 20:18 +0000, Haiyang Zhang wrote: > > > From: David Miller [mailto:da...@davemloft.net] It works fine, but > > > it's unclean. > > > Keep the req_id type as "u64", because that's what it is, a 64-bit request > ID. > > I will make this update and submit a new patch, with the added comments. > > Do you mean you'll use this to avoid compiler warnings? > > req_id = (u64)(unsigned long)packet;
I will use: req_id = (ulong)packet; Assigning 32 bit integer to 64 bit variable is fine. Thanks, - Haiyang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/