linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] video: xilinxfb: Fix sparse warnings

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Date:	Fri, 31 May 2013 18:33:00 +0200
From:	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Timur Tabi <timur@...i.org>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] video: xilinxfb: Fix sparse warnings

On 05/31/2013 05:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 31 May 2013 10:06:43 Timur Tabi wrote:
>> On 05/31/2013 09:56 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> Yes, unfortunately, this is what all other frame buffer drivers do
>>> at the moment. It is technically not correct, but most architectures
>>> are able to call readl/writel on regular memory, or dereference
>>> __iomem tokens, so we often get away with it. It's probably not
>>> worth fixing it in the fbdev code base as that would be a huge
>>> change, and people are migrating to DRM/KMS.
>>
>> But why bother fixing this bug if it just makes things worse?  Sparse is
>> supposed to warn us about bad code.  This patch doesn't fix the bug, it
>> just masks the warnings!
> 
> Yes, good point. It's probably best cast the ioremap() output to
> a regular pointer here, as that is actually just uncached RAM,
> not an MMIO register.

ok. It means I will just remove this patch from this patchset.

Thanks,
Michal

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