linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: dt3155: Cleanup memory mapped i/o access

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Message-ID: <20100430215645.GA12409@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:56:45 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@...ionengravers.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, "ss@....gov.au" <ss@....gov.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: dt3155: Cleanup memory mapped i/o access

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:23:09PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> The macros ReadMReg and WriteMReg are really just private versions of
> the kernel's readl and writel functions.  Use the kernel's functions
> instead.  And since ioremap returns a (void __iomem *) not a (u8 *),
> change all the uses of dt3155_lbase to reflect this.
> 
> While here, make dt3155_lbase static since it is only used in the
> dt3155_drv.c file.  Also, remove the global variable dt3155_bbase
> since it is not used anywhere in the code.
> 
> Where is makes sense, create a local 'mmio' variable instead of using
> dt3155_lbase[minor] to make the code more readable.
> 
> This change also affects the {Read|Write}I2C functions so they are
> also modified as needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> Cc: Scott Smedley <ss@....gov.au>
> 
> --- a/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c

This doesn't apply at all against the latest linux-next tree.  Care to
redo it and resend it (not in base64 please.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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