Re: [PATCH 4/7] mmc: at91_mci: use DMA buffer for read

[Wolfgang Mües]

Hi Andrew,

Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > +		kunmap_atomic(((void *)sgbuffer)-sg->offset, KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ);
> 
> It's a feature of kunmap_atomic() that it will accept a pointer to any
> location in the page.  So the subtraction isn't strictly needed.
> 
> And if the subtraction is removed, the (void*) cast can also be removed.

I did not know this. Thank you for pointing this out. So this part of the 
patch (which was purely cosmetic because I have seen no error without the 
subtraction) can be omitted.

best regards
 
i. A. Wolfgang Mües
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