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Date:   Tue, 5 Nov 2019 09:50:59 +0000
From:   John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, <xuwei5@...wei.com>
CC:     <linuxarm@...wei.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <olof@...om.net>, <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] bus: hisi_lpc: Clean some types

On 04/11/2019 18:39, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 01:22 +0800, John Garry wrote:
>> Sparse complains of these:
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:82:38: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:82:38:    expected void const volatile [noderef] <asn:2>*addr
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:82:38:    got unsigned char *
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:131:35: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:131:35:    expected unsigned char *mbase
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:131:35:    got void [noderef] <asn:2>*membase
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:186:35: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:186:35:    expected unsigned char *mbase
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:186:35:    got void [noderef] <asn:2>*membase
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:228:16: warning: cast to restricted __le32
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:251:13: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:251:13:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] val
>> drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c:251:13:    got restricted __le32 [usertype] <noident>
>>
>> Clean them up.
> 
> OK, it might also be good to change the _in and _out functions
> to use void * and not unsigned char * for buf

Hi Joe,

In fact, using unsigned char * is the right thing to do, and really the 
upper layer prob should not be passing void *. I'll look at this as a 
follow up.

Cheers,
John

> 
> ---
>   drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c b/drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c
> index 20c9571..ec2bfb 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c
> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int wait_lpc_idle(unsigned char *mbase, unsigned int waitcnt)
>    */
>   static int hisi_lpc_target_in(struct hisi_lpc_dev *lpcdev,
>   			      struct lpc_cycle_para *para, unsigned long addr,
> -			      unsigned char *buf, unsigned long opcnt)
> +			      void *buf, unsigned long opcnt)
>   {
>   	unsigned int cmd_word;
>   	unsigned int waitcnt;
> @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static int hisi_lpc_target_in(struct hisi_lpc_dev *lpcdev,
>    */
>   static int hisi_lpc_target_out(struct hisi_lpc_dev *lpcdev,
>   			       struct lpc_cycle_para *para, unsigned long addr,
> -			       const unsigned char *buf, unsigned long opcnt)
> +			       const void *buf, unsigned long opcnt)
>   {
>   	unsigned int waitcnt;
>   	unsigned long flags;
> 
> 
> .
>