From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [WATCHDOG] sa1100_wdt.c sparse cleanups
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:45:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137573917.16338.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060117190445.GA4298@infomag.infomag.iguana.be>
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On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:04 +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 10:10 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> >
> > > It's probably better to use a union with these, eg:
> >
> > The common idiom in the watchdog drivers seems to be to use separate
> > variables. I'll leave it up to Wim if he wants to change that.
> >
> > The following makes drivers/char/watchdog/sa1100_wdt.c sparse clean.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
>
> I seem to have missed this last e-mail (I was moving around that time...).
> This is indeed how it's been done in other drivers. I just uploaded this "patch"
> into my -mm test tree. Within a week or two I'll move it to the final watchdog tree.
>
> We should look to the struct watchdog part in more detail though.
> a union is an option, but probably not the only one :-)
Hi Wim,
Thanks for applying the patch.
BTW I've changed jobs since I sent it and I'm no longer working with ARM
hardware.
Ian.
--
Ian Campbell
Q: Why do the police always travel in threes?
A: One to do the reading, one to do the writing, and the other keeps
an eye on the two intellectuals.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-18 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-02 8:56 [WATCHDOG] sa1100_wdt.c sparse cleanups Ian Campbell
2005-11-05 10:10 ` Russell King
2005-11-05 14:51 ` Al Viro
2005-11-05 17:24 ` Russell King
2005-11-07 10:21 ` Ian Campbell
2006-01-17 19:04 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2006-01-18 8:45 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
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