Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (oxp-sensors) Add AYANEO 2 and Geek models

[Guenter Roeck]

On 4/28/23 12:15, Joaquin Aramendia wrote:
> > > I don't know why but the compiler would complain with the casting from
> > > enum to void*.
> >
> > Really ? I tried with both 32 bit and 64 bit targets, and the above worked
> > just fine (with W=1). I tried with gcc 10.3 as well as 11.3. What is
> > your compiler version, what exactly is the warning/error message you
> > observed, and how exactly did your code look like ?
>
> Said something about an invalid cast of an lvalue? I can´t remember exactly

Like this, maybe ?

drivers/hwmon/oxp-sensors.c:63:26: error: lvalue required as unary ‘&’ operand

That would have been something along the line of

	.driver_data = (void *)&aok_zoe_a1,

or
	driver_data = &aok_zoe_a1,

> and couldn't reproduce it again. Will change all to your form after
> this patch gets
> merged if you like, just to keep things atomic.

Please do.

Thanks,
Guenter

> > > Found out that explicitly casting the enum literal before casting it
> > > to void* works and
> > > the compiler stopped complaining so I went with it.
> >
> > You are not casting the enum literal, but a pointer to it.
>
> Yes. I'm taking an enum literal and taking its pointer to cast it to a void*.
> A little cumbersome, but maybe it can be avoided by using your proposed
> form directly and after making sure it works.