From: Andrew Morton <hidden> Date: 2005-07-27 20:25:10
Also in:lkml
Matt Porter [off-list ref] wrote:
+static u64 dma_mask = 0xffffffffULL;
I'm sure you're totally uninterested in this, but the above will probably
generate warnings on (say) ppc64, where u64 is implemented as unsigned
long.
I usually chuck a simple `-1' in there and the compiler always gets it
right, regardless of signedness and size and architecture.