Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for October 21 (printk format warnings)

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:01:42 -0700

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:57:25PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:51:09 +1100 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 
> 
> printk format warnings summary:
> 
> i386:
> 
> linux-next-20081021/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c:207: warning: format '%08lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long long unsigned int'
> 
> linux-next-20081021/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c:107: warning: format '%ld' expects type 'long int', but argument 3 has type 'long long unsigned int'
> 
> x86_64:
> 
> linux-next-20081021/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c:207: warning: format '%08lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long long unsigned int'
> 
> linux-next-20081021/drivers/usb/misc/vstusb.c:623: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 5 has type 'size_t'

Crap.  What's the expected modifier for "size_t" to work on all arches?

Same goes for the result of "size_of()", what should we use there?  Or
are we just required to always cast things?

thanks,

greg k-h