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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Garret Kelly <gdk@google.com>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@tronnes.org>,
	"open list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: force cast to non-__iomem pointer
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 11:39:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150507083908.GF14154@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAUC4VKSAejfm35KDmed=2fXez8h+ZB3+thQr+yvVU4mu4g+og@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 02:34:49PM -0700, Garret Kelly wrote:
> > Can't we fix this properly, to use the correct type of pointer instead
> > for non-__iomem allocations?
> 
> You mean making an alternate screen_base pointer inside fb_info that
> isn't __iomem?  There are already a bunch of framebuffer drivers that
> (ab)use screen_base to store non-__iomem pointers, so this didn't
> strike me as too far out of line.

You could add a new pointer or you could just make ->screen_base a
union.  I'm not sure which is the best.

regards,
dan carpenter


      reply	other threads:[~2015-05-07  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-16 17:29 [PATCH] staging: fbtft: force cast to non-__iomem pointer Garret Kelly
2015-04-30 14:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-06 21:34   ` Garret Kelly
2015-05-07  8:39     ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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