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Re: [PATCH v2] staging: slicoss: fix different address space warnings

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On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 05:07:37AM +0100, Sergio Paracuellos wrote:
>> This patch fix the following sparse warnings in slicoss driver:
>> warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> * Remove IOMEM_GET_FIELDADDR macro
>> * Add ioread64 and iowrite64 defines
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>  1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
>> index d2929b9..d68a463 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
>> @@ -128,6 +128,35 @@
>>
>>  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, slic_pci_tbl);
>>
>> +#ifndef ioread64
>> +#ifdef readq
>> +#define ioread64 readq
>> +#else
>> +#define ioread64 _ioread64
>> +static inline u64 _ioread64(void __iomem *mmio)
>> +{
>> +     u64 low, high;
>> +
>> +     low = ioread32(mmio);
>> +     high = ioread32(mmio + sizeof(u32));
>> +     return low | (high << 32);
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +#endif
>
> eek, no!  Don't write common kernel functions in a driver just because
> some configuration option was incorrect.  That implies that you really
> can't do that type of read/write for that platform, so maybe you
> shouldn't be doing it!
>
> Split this up into one patch that does the 32bit stuff, then worry
> about the 64bit stuff in a separate patch please.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

thank you for your clarification, Greg.

I'll send a v3 patchset with the two patches.

Cheers,

Sergio Paracuellos

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[PATCH v2] staging: slicoss: fix different address space warnings Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com> - 2016-11-16 05:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] staging: slicoss: fix different address space warnings Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-11-16 08:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] staging: slicoss: fix different address space warnings Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com> - 2016-11-16 09:40 +0100

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