Re: [PATCH] epca iomem annotations + several missing readw()

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 16:41:07 EST


On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 02:23:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Gaah.
>
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Al Viro wrote:
> > { /* Begin post_fep_init */
> >
> > int i;
> > - unsigned char *memaddr;
> > - struct global_data *gd;
> > + unsigned char __iomem *memaddr;
> > + struct global_data __iomem *gd;
>
> Please don't use "[unsigned] char __iomem *".

Not a problem, I simply wanted to keep __iomem stuff apart from driver
cleanups.

> Why? Two reasons:

[obvious - we are in full agreement here]

> I bet the patch would look like a nice cleanup if you did that. Hint,
> hint.

OK... I'd rather do that as an incremental, to keep unrelated changes
separate, but I can merge them if you prefer it that way.
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