From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Grandegger Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v2] can: SJA1000: generic OF platform bus driver Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 08:58:21 +0200 Message-ID: <4A1A418D.3040207@grandegger.com> References: <4A16BAAE.3070401@grandegger.com> <200905231315.57016.arnd@arndb.de> <4A18298E.8090209@grandegger.com> <200905242327.15139.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Linux Netdev List , devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org To: Arnd Bergmann Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:39729 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751830AbZEYG6W (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2009 02:58:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200905242327.15139.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 23 May 2009, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: >> Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> Minor nitpicking: dev->base_addr should be defined as an __iomem pointer >>> so you can avoid the cast here and in the ioremap/iounmap path. >> Here the member "base_addr" of "struct net_device" is used and it's not >> up to me to change the type. > > Right, that makes sense. However, most drivers use the field to store the > physical address, not the iomap token. Maybe there should be a new field > in struct sja1000_priv for the virtual address, but that would be a change > to the base driver, not just to the OF portion. Is that common practice? If yes, I will add a member to store the virtual address to struct sja1000_priv. Wolfgang.