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From: Abramo Bagnara <abramo@alsa-project.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: unsigned long ioremap()?
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 10:53:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AF11C74.F679F6F8@alsa-project.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10105030852330.9438-100000@callisto.of.borg> <15089.979.650927.634060@pizda.ninka.net> <3AF10E80.63727970@alsa-project.org> <3AF11211.B226543D@mandrakesoft.com> <3AF11953.54BBE72B@alsa-project.org> <3AF11A7E.9184627C@mandrakesoft.com>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Abramo Bagnara wrote:
> > > > That's indeed the reason to change ioremap prototype for 2.5.
> > >
> > > Say what??
> > >
> >
> > Please give a look
> > http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0008.1/0338.html
> > http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0008.1/0407.html
> >
> > This was something that already got a wide consent.
> 
> Let's not return unsigned long -- DaveM's suggestion is far better.
> unsigned long is not opaque enough, IMHO.

I'm not sure to understand what's the proposed way to do offsetting:

#define IO_ADDR(cookie, ofs)?
(maybe with #define IO_SADDR(cookie, struct_name, field))
Others?

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It sounds good!

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-03  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-03  6:55 unsigned long ioremap()? Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-05-03  7:08 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-03  7:18   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-03  7:29     ` C.Praveen
2001-05-03  7:46     ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-03  7:57       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-05-03  7:53   ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-05-03  8:08     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-03  8:26       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-05-03  8:39       ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-05-03  8:44         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-03  8:53           ` Abramo Bagnara [this message]
2001-05-03  9:45   ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-03  9:57     ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-05-04  0:22       ` David S. Miller
2001-05-04  7:15         ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-05-04  7:30           ` David S. Miller
2001-05-04 11:07             ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-05-04 13:53             ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-13 14:00           ` Jes Sorensen
2001-05-13 14:38             ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-05-03 10:02     ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-03  7:33 ` Jonathan Lundell

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