On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 14:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> On Sun, 20 May 2007 13:08:15 +0200 Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> wrote:
> 
> > FYI, building 2.6.22-rc2 with
> > gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070514 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-7)
> > on my powerbook (PPC) gives:
> > 
> > ...
> > kernel/time/ntp.c: In function 'do_adjtimex':
> > kernel/time/ntp.c:307: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
> > kernel/time/ntp.c:310: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
> 
> hm, do_div() is defined as operating on a u64, but ntp is passing it an s64
> and the asm-generic implementation of do_div() is warning about that.
> 
> Fixing that would be simple but a bit ugly.

We have the signed do_div() work around and it is used in the ntp code 5
lines further down already.

	tglx

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Subject: NTP: use the signed divide function instead of do_div()

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> > kernel/time/ntp.c:307: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
> > kernel/time/ntp.c:310: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
> 
> hm, do_div() is defined as operating on a u64, but ntp is passing it an s64
> and the asm-generic implementation of do_div() is warning about that.

Replace do_div() by div_long_long_rem_signed()

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c
index cb25649..bb1bf86 100644
--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -304,10 +304,12 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct timex *txc)
 			temp64 = time_offset << (SHIFT_NSEC - SHIFT_FLL);
 			if (time_offset < 0) {
 			    temp64 = -temp64;
-			    do_div(temp64, mtemp);
+			    temp64 = div_long_long_rem_signed(temp64, mtemp,
+							      &rem);
 			    freq_adj -= temp64;
 			} else {
-			    do_div(temp64, mtemp);
+			    temp64 = div_long_long_rem_signed(temp64, mtemp,
+							      &rem);
 			    freq_adj += temp64;
 			}
 		    }




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