From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/07] ARM: OMAP2: Fix sparse, checkpatch warnings in OMAP2/3 IRQ code Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:37:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20081009143755.GF435@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1223035009-23866-1-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> <1223035009-23866-2-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> <1223035009-23866-3-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> <1223035009-23866-4-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> <1223035009-23866-5-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> <1223035009-23866-6-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> <1223035009-23866-7-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> <1223035009-23866-8-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:57809 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751889AbYJIOiK (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:38:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1223035009-23866-8-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Tony Lindgren Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Paul Walmsley On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:56:49PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote: > Fix sparse warnings in mach-omap2/irq.c. Fix by defining > intc_bank_write_reg() and intc_bank_read_reg(), and convert INTC module > register access to use them rather than __raw_{read,write}l. This is not a fix. > +/* INTC bank register get/set */ > + > +static void intc_bank_write_reg(u32 val, struct omap_irq_bank *bank, u16 reg) > +{ > + __raw_writel(val, (__force void __iomem *)(bank->base_reg + reg)); > +} > + > +static u32 intc_bank_read_reg(struct omap_irq_bank *bank, u16 reg) > +{ > + return __raw_readl((__force void __iomem *)(bank->base_reg + reg)); Because it uses __force here. In my tree, bank->base_reg is defined to be: void __iomem *base_reg; So these cases are entirely unnecessary. As I've said before, use of __force is generally a sure sign of doing something wrong.