Re: [Linux-ATM-General] Re: [PATCH][ATM] device autoload, kill ATM_ITF_ANY

[chas w. <ch...@cm...>]

In message <200...@ga...>,Mitchell Blank Jr writes:
>Really?  I haven't seen that problem.  try_then_request_module is defined
>in such a way that arg #1 is a random pointer (and preserves its type)
>What version of gcc are you using (and what is the exact warning)

net/atm/common.c:432: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in conditional expression
gcc version 3.0.4 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 3.0.4-1)

try_then_request_module() would expland to:

dev = atm_dev_lookup(itf) ?: request_module("atm-device-%d", itf), atm_dev_lookup(itf);

the second half of the conditional clause is a compound statement x,y.  i
would guess this returns an integer value.  i see very little use of 
try_then_request_module() in the kernel i imagine this is for a fairly
good reason.