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From: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: cooloney@kernel.org, ben@simtec.co.uk, s.hauer@pengutronix.de,
	jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jherrero@hvsistemas.es
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netdev: DM9000: Added typecasting to supress some warnings on Blackfin
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:18:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081013231837.GL6646@trinity.fluff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081013.030150.96524866.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:01:50AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:10:09 +0800
> 
> > From: Javier Herrero <jherrero@hvsistemas.es>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Javier Herrero <jherrero@hvsistemas.es>
> > Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
> 
> This is not only inelegant, it'll likely break things on
> 64-bit MIPS or any other case where the upper 32-bit matter.
> 
> I'd rather see Blackfin fix it's I/O accessor prototypes
> to take a proper __iomem pointer.

How much would it hurt to provide blackfin wide
readsb and friends with the correct prototype and
remove the nasty blackfin hack in the dm9000.c driver
for good?

-- 
Ben

Q:      What's a light-year?
A:      One-third less calories than a regular year.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-13 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-13  9:10 [PATCH 1/1] netdev: DM9000: Added typecasting to supress some warnings on Blackfin Bryan Wu
2008-10-13  9:17 ` Ben Dooks
2008-10-13  9:28   ` Javier Herrero
2008-10-13  9:52     ` Bryan Wu
2008-10-13 10:24       ` Mike Frysinger
2008-10-13 10:27         ` Bryan Wu
2008-10-13  9:51   ` Bryan Wu
2008-10-13 10:01 ` David Miller
2008-10-13 23:18   ` Ben Dooks [this message]
2008-10-13 12:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-10-14  8:50   ` Bryan Wu

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