linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] staging: slicoss: fix different address space warnings: 32 bits

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:33:02 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lior Dotan <liodot@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] staging: slicoss: fix different address space
 warnings: 32 bits

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:22:00PM +0100, Sergio Paracuellos wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Dan Carpenter
> <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> > Hm...  I seem to duplicate the Sparse warnings at all.  That's weird.
> >
> 
> With this patch applied, sparse warnings dissapear for me... That's weird.
>

I understand that.

> > Anyway as far as I can tell the warnings are false positives...  Can't
> > you just remove the __iomem tag?  Have you tested this change?
> >
> I haven' t tested this change because I can't test it :(. Do you think
> that just removing
> __iomem tag is enough?

Give it a shot and see if the warnings go away.  I don't think the tag
is correct.

regards,
dan carpenter