netdev - Re: [Patch]8139too: remove unnecessary cast of ioread32()'s return value

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Message-ID: <4C02F3A2.90100@garzik.org>
Date:	Sun, 30 May 2010 19:24:18 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	romieu@...zoreil.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch]8139too: remove unnecessary cast of ioread32()'s return
 value

On 05/30/2010 06:34 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik<jeff@...zik.org>
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 13:35:51 -0400
>
>> Have you verified this matches all architectures definition of
>> readl()?

> And if it doesn't match, that's an arch bug which should be fixed and
> in any event there is only one possibility of a non-match and that is
> if the routine returns "unsigned long"

That was the genesis of the question.  Some arches still use unsigned long.

	Jeff



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