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From: Abramo Bagnara <abramo@alsa-project.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: unsigned long ioremap()?
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:57:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AF12B94.60083603@alsa-project.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AF10E80.63727970@alsa-project.org>  <Pine.LNX.4.05.10105030852330.9438-100000@callisto.of.borg> <15089.979.650927.634060@pizda.ninka.net> <11718.988883128@redhat.com>

David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> abramo@alsa-project.org said:
> >  The problem I see is that with the former solution nothing prevents
> > from to do:
> 
> >       regs->reg2 = 13;
> 
> > That's indeed the reason to change ioremap prototype for 2.5.
> 
> An alternative is to add an fixed offset to the cookie before returning it,
> and subtract it again in {read,write}[bwl].

You understand that in this way you change a compile time warning in a
runtime error (conditioned to path reaching, not easy to interpret,
etc.)

IMO this is a far less effective debugging strategy.

-- 
Abramo Bagnara                       mailto:abramo@alsa-project.org

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It sounds good!

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-03  9:58 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
2001-05-03  9:45   ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-03  9:57     ` Abramo Bagnara [this message]
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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