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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Ronit Halder <ronit.crj@gmail.com>
Cc: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, noralf@tronnes.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: fbtft: Fix iomem dereference
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:57:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150818085731.GL5558@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1439880417-15675-1-git-send-email-ronit.crj@gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:16:57PM +0530, Ronit Halder wrote:
> This patch fixes the warning generated by sparse
> "cast removes address space of expression" by using ioread16
> function insted of directly dereferencing I/O memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ronit halder <ronit.crj@gmail.com>

Are these really iomem pointers?  A lot of drivers use a fake
screen_base which is just a buffer of normal memory.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-18  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-18  6:46 [PATCH] Staging: fbtft: Fix iomem dereference Ronit Halder
2015-08-18  8:57 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-08-18 13:38   ` Ronit Halder

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