eal: eliminate cast of hpet_msb_inc

Message ID 20181010232219.28410-1-stephen@networkplumber.org (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
Headers
Series eal: eliminate cast of hpet_msb_inc |

Checks

Context Check Description
ci/checkpatch success coding style OK
ci/Intel-compilation fail Compilation issues

Commit Message

Stephen Hemminger Oct. 10, 2018, 11:22 p.m. UTC
  The cast of hpet_msb_inc is causing a warning in some compilations.
Yet the cast is unnecessary, the function is used only one place
just use the correct signature.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_timer.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  

Comments

Thomas Monjalon Oct. 24, 2018, 11:34 p.m. UTC | #1
11/10/2018 01:22, Stephen Hemminger:
> The cast of hpet_msb_inc is causing a warning in some compilations.
> Yet the cast is unnecessary, the function is used only one place
> just use the correct signature.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

Applied, thanks
  

Patch

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_timer.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_timer.c
index 2766bd7895b3..bc8f051990ba 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_timer.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_timer.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@  static pthread_t msb_inc_thread_id;
  * containing used to process MSB of the HPET (unfortunately, we need
  * this because hpet is 32 bits by default under linux).
  */
-static void
+static void *
 hpet_msb_inc(__attribute__((unused)) void *arg)
 {
 	uint32_t t;
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@  hpet_msb_inc(__attribute__((unused)) void *arg)
 			eal_hpet_msb ++;
 		sleep(10);
 	}
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 uint64_t
@@ -178,7 +179,7 @@  rte_eal_hpet_init(int make_default)
 	/* create a thread that will increment a global variable for
 	 * msb (hpet is 32 bits by default under linux) */
 	ret = rte_ctrl_thread_create(&msb_inc_thread_id, "hpet-msb-inc", NULL,
-			(void *(*)(void *))hpet_msb_inc, NULL);
+				     hpet_msb_inc, NULL);
 	if (ret != 0) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "ERROR: Cannot create HPET timer thread!\n");
 		internal_config.no_hpet = 1;