From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.29-rc2] palm_bk3710 buildfix
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:35:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49743B36.90909@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901181629.48348.david-b@pacbell.net>
Hello.
David Brownell wrote:
> On Sunday 18 January 2009, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>
>>> Someone should fix hw_regs_t to neither be a typedef, nor
>>> use "unsigned long" where it should use "void __iomem *".
>>>
>> It cannot use pointers of course -- as the addresses can be I/O ports.
>>
>
> It could use the ioread*() calls, which take pointers
> and handle both types of I/O in a type-safe manner.
>
Probably they can... though using those would only slow down register
access on x86.
> - Dave
WBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-19 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-18 16:33 [patch 2.6.29-rc2] palm_bk3710 buildfix David Brownell
2009-01-18 17:14 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-19 0:29 ` David Brownell
2009-01-19 8:35 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2009-01-19 8:57 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-19 12:07 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-19 13:06 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-19 14:14 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-19 12:00 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-19 13:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-19 13:21 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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