netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] netdev: DM9000: Added typecasting to supress some warnings on Blackfin

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Message-ID: <20081013231837.GL6646@trinity.fluff.org>
Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:18:38 +0100
From:	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	cooloney@...nel.org, ben@...tec.co.uk, s.hauer@...gutronix.de,
	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jherrero@...istemas.es
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netdev: DM9000: Added typecasting to supress some warnings on Blackfin

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:01:50AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Bryan Wu <cooloney@...nel.org>
> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:10:09 +0800
> 
> > From: Javier Herrero <jherrero@...istemas.es>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Javier Herrero <jherrero@...istemas.es>
> > Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@...nel.org>
> 
> This is not only inelegant, it'll likely break things on
> 64-bit MIPS or any other case where the upper 32-bit matter.
> 
> I'd rather see Blackfin fix it's I/O accessor prototypes
> to take a proper __iomem pointer.

How much would it hurt to provide blackfin wide
readsb and friends with the correct prototype and
remove the nasty blackfin hack in the dm9000.c driver
for good?

-- 
Ben

Q:      What's a light-year?
A:      One-third less calories than a regular year.
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