Re: Help with compiler warning

From: Benny Halevy
Date: Sun Aug 24 2008 - 11:29:43 EST


On Aug. 22, 2008, 4:36 +0300, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 âmemcpy_fromioâ:
> include/asm/io_32.h:151: warning: passing argument 2 of â__memcpyâ
> 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.

Benny

>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry
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