On Monday 25 May 2009, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: > > Right, that makes sense. However, most drivers use the field to store the > > physical address, not the iomap token. Maybe there should be a new field > > in struct sja1000_priv for the virtual address, but that would be a change > > to the base driver, not just to the OF portion. > > Is that common practice? If yes, I will add a member to store the > virtual address to struct sja1000_priv.
I grepped through the network driver for usage of ->base_addr, and it's somewhat inconsistent. The majority of the users use it for a physical address, but there are also a few that use it for the __iomem token. Casts between unsigned long and qualified (__iomem, __user, const, ...) pointers do not cause a warning, but can easily lead to bugs when another user casts to an unqualified pointer. Arnd <>< _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev