From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:04:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] ARM: shmobile: use __iomem pointers for MMIO Message-Id: <201209181604.49562.arnd@arndb.de> List-Id: References: <1347658492-11608-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <201209180831.06572.arnd@arndb.de> <20120918115038.GB3198@verge.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20120918115038.GB3198@verge.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Tuesday 18 September 2012, Simon Horman wrote: > > I agree it's not nice to have to do this, but this is largely because > > of shmobile doing things differently from all other ARM platforms, on > > which the respective patches tend to clean up things and reduce the > > number of type casts. > > > > The only alternative I can see is for shmobile to introduce its own > > mach/io.h file with the relaxed type checking, but that would only > > defer the problem until the point where you want shmobile to be part > > of the common multiplatform kernel binary. > > If it is needed in the long term, then I'm happy with it going in now. > Could you remove the portion that Paul objected to? Yes, I already did that. Arnd