Re: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Fix a compiler warning in netvsc_send()

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:25:55 -0700

> Fixed: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
> 
> The Hyper-V hosts always use 64 bit request id. The guests can have 32 or 64
> bit pointers which equal to the ulong type size. So we cast it to ulong type.
> And, assigning 32bit integer to 64 bit variable works fine.
> 
> The VMBus returns the same id in the completion packet. But the value has no
> effect on the host side.
> 
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>

Applied, but:

> -		req_id = (u64)packet;
> +		req_id = (ulong)packet;

I really do not like these shorthands for fundamental C types, we
generally do not use "ulong", "uint" etc.  Please expand them out
explicitly to "unsigned long", "unsigned int", etc.