linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] mfd: add pruss mfd driver.

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:12:52 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Subhasish Ghosh <subhasish@...tralsolutions.com>,
	sachi@...tralsolutions.com,
	davinci-linux-open-source@...ux.davincidsp.com,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>, nsekhar@...com,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, m-watkins@...com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] mfd: add pruss mfd driver.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:29:59AM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 04/27/2011 08:39 AM, Subhasish Ghosh wrote:
> > - Is it ok to have u32 etc for __iomem cookie ?
> 
> no - "void __iomem *" is "void __iomem *"

Actually, it is _provided_ you don't directly dereference it.  You can
then do pointer arithmetic on it in the usual way - which is about the
only valid thing to do with an __iomem pointer.  The voidness just acts
as an additional check against direct dereferences of this.

The important thing though is that the code passes sparse checks.
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