linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 2 1/5] staging: sm750fb: Use memset

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Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:25:16 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
Cc:	teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 2 1/5] staging: sm750fb: Use memset_io instead of
 memset

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:22:11PM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> This patch takes into account that cursor->vstart, crtc->vScreen and
> share->pvMem are pointers to memory-mapped I/O and thus we should use memset_io
> to make this explicit. In addition, some architectures require special treatment
> of memory-mapped I/O so the previous code could actually break without this
> change.
sorry for the confusion.
tested the whole series on hardware.

Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>

sudip

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