[PATCH 0/3] PCI: dwc: Improve code readability
Krzysztof Wilczyński
kw at linux.com
Mon Nov 13 23:22:21 AEDT 2023
Hello,
[...]
> > > Now, while you are looking at things, can you also take care about the following:
> > >
> > > drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-rcar-gen4.c:439:15: warning: cast to smaller integer type 'enum dw_pcie_device_mode'
> > from 'const void *' [-Wvoid-pointer-to-enum-cast]
>
> Thank you for the report!
>
> > > This requires adding structs for each data member of the of_device_id type.
> >
> > That sounds like overkill to me.
> > An intermediate cast to uintptr_t should fix the issue as well.
>
> I confirmed that the uintptr_t fixed the issue.
We declined a similar fix in the past[1] ...
> I also think that adding a new struct with the mode is overkill.
... with the hopes that a driver could drop the switch statements in place
of using the other pattern. Also, to be consistent with other drivers that
do this already.
> So, I would like to fix the issue by using the cast of uintptr_t.
Sure. I appreciate that this would be more work. When you send your
patch, can you include an update to the iproc driver (and credit the
original author from [1])? I would appreciate it.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20230814230008.GA196797@bhelgaas/
Krzysztof
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