Re: [patch 3/3] Add tsi108 On Chip Ethernet device driver support

From: Zang Roy-r61911
Date: Wed Sep 13 2006 - 22:51:38 EST


On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 22:43, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Roland Dreier wrote:
> > > +struct tsi108_prv_data {
> > > + volatile u32 regs; /* Base of normal regs */
> > > + volatile u32 phyregs; /* Base of register bank used for PHY
> access */
> >
> > Why volatile? This looks really wrong here.
>
> Indeed.
I will remove it.
>
>
> > > + data->regs = (u32)ioremap(einfo->regs, 0x400); /*FIX ME */
> > > + data->phyregs = (u32)ioremap(einfo->phyregs, 0x400); /*FIX
> ME */
> >
> > What needs to be fixed here? And why are you casting the result of
> > ioremap to u32? Shouldn't you keep the normal return value?
>
> Oh, that's very, very wrong.
I will find method to avoid this :-).
Roy

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