From: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Ricky lloyd <ricky.lloyd@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Dittmer <j.dittmer@portrix.net>,
Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
NetDev Mailing List <netdev@oss.sgi.com>,
proski@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix readw/writew warnings in drivers/net/wireless/hermes.h
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:31:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041011123137.GB28100@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a50bd3704101105046e66538c@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:34:20PM +0530, Ricky lloyd wrote:
> > Isn't the correct fix to declare iobase as (void __iomem *) ?
> >
>
> Earlier today i had posted a patch which mainly fixes this same
> problem with lotsa scsi
> drivers and tulip drivers. I wondered the same "shouldnt all the addrs
> be declared as
> void __iomem* ??".
The trouble with that is that for some versions of the orinoco card,
the iobase refers to a legacy ISA IO address, not a memory-mapped IO
address (that's the inw()/outw() path in the macro). That needs an
integer, rather than a pointer.
It's not clear to me which way around the cast is less ugly.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-11 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-11 11:34 [PATCH] Fix readw/writew warnings in drivers/net/wireless/hermes.h Cal Peake
2004-10-11 11:54 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-10-11 12:04 ` Ricky lloyd
2004-10-11 12:31 ` David Gibson [this message]
2004-10-11 12:42 ` Cal Peake
2004-10-11 13:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2004-10-11 13:33 ` viro
2004-10-11 12:23 ` Cal Peake
2004-10-11 12:29 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-10-11 12:32 ` David Gibson
2004-10-11 12:39 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-10-11 12:49 ` Ben Dooks
2004-10-11 13:16 ` viro
2004-10-11 14:16 ` Cal Peake
2004-10-11 13:12 ` Pavel Roskin
2004-10-11 14:04 ` viro
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