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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:56:21 +0900
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] ARM: shmobile: use __iomem pointers for MMIO

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 04:04:49PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 September 2012, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > I agree it's not nice to have to do this, but this is largely because
> > > of shmobile doing things differently from all other ARM platforms, on
> > > which the respective patches tend to clean up things and reduce the
> > > number of type casts.
> > > 
> > > The only alternative I can see is for shmobile to introduce its own
> > > mach/io.h file with the relaxed type checking, but that would only
> > > defer the problem until the point where you want shmobile to be part
> > > of the common multiplatform kernel binary.
> > 
> > If it is needed in the long term, then I'm happy with it going in now.
> > Could you remove the portion that Paul objected to?
> 
> Yes, I already did that.

Great, thanks.
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