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From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Subject: Re: Help with compiler warning
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:31:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B17EE0.2090608@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B17E56.3060106@panasas.com>

On Aug. 24, 2008, 18:29 +0300, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> wrote:
> On Aug. 22, 2008, 4:36 +0300, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>> In drivers/pcmcia/cardbus.c, the following statement
>>
>>          memcpy_fromio(ptr, s->cb_cis_virt + addr, len);
>>
>> generates the warning
>>
>>    CC [M]  drivers/pcmcia/cardbus.o
>> include/asm/io_32.h: In function ‘memcpy_fromio’:
>> include/asm/io_32.h:151: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘__memcpy’ 
>> discards qualifiers from pointer target type
>>
>> s->cb_cis_virt is "void __iomem" and addr is uint.
>>
>> What cast does argument 2 need to silence the warning?
> 
> memcpy_fromio takes a (const volatile void __iomem *) for the 
> src address.

So the culprit could be the volatile qualifier...

> 
> Benny
> 
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Larry
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-24 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-22  1:36 Help with compiler warning Larry Finger
2008-08-24 15:29 ` Benny Halevy
2008-08-24 15:31   ` Benny Halevy [this message]
2008-08-24 15:50     ` Larry Finger
2008-08-24 16:32       ` Andreas Schwab

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