netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: mac8390 - Sort out memory/MMIO accesses and casts

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Date:	Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:21:30 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mac8390 - Sort out memory/MMIO accesses and casts

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 19:36 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> commit 5c7fffd0e3b57cb63f50bbd710868f012d67654f ("drivers/net/mac8390.c: Remove
> useless memcpy casting") removed too many casts, introducing the following
> warnings:
> 
> | drivers/net/mac8390.c:248: warning: passing argument 1 of '__builtin_memcpy' makes pointer from integer without a cast
> | drivers/net/mac8390.c:253: warning: passing argument 1 of 'word_memcpy_tocard' makes pointer from integer without a cast
> | drivers/net/mac8390.c:255: warning: passing argument 2 of 'word_memcpy_fromcard' makes pointer from integer without a cast
> 
> Instead of just readding the casts,
>   - move all casts inside word_memcpy_{to,from}card(),
>   - replace an incorrect memcpy() by memcpy_toio(),
>   - add memcmp_withio() as a wrapper around memcmp(),
>   - replace an incorrect memcpy_toio() by memcpy_fromio().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> Tested-by: Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>

Thanks Geert and Finn.

Apologies for not setting up a cross-compiler to fix this.

cheers, Joe

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