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 <><

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