Re: unsigned long ioremap()?

From: Abramo Bagnara (abramo@alsa-project.org)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 03:53:08 EST

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Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Abramo Bagnara wrote:
> > > > That's indeed the reason to change ioremap prototype for 2.5.
> > >
> > > Say what??
> > >
> >
> > Please give a look
> > http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0008.1/0338.html
> > http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0008.1/0407.html
> >
> > This was something that already got a wide consent.
>
> Let's not return unsigned long -- DaveM's suggestion is far better.
> unsigned long is not opaque enough, IMHO.

I'm not sure to understand what's the proposed way to do offsetting:

#define IO_ADDR(cookie, ofs)?
(maybe with #define IO_SADDR(cookie, struct_name, field))
Others?

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