Re: [PATCH 2.3.x] IDE probe fix

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 04:33:12 EST


On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

>
> This patch fixes a compile problem on m68k, where ide_ioreg_t is typedef'd as
> `unsigned char *'.
>
> As per the ANSI/ISO C standard, the difference between two variables of the
> same type is always of an integer type.
>
> --- native-2.3.47-pre3/drivers/block/ide-probe.c Thu Feb 17 20:22:56 2000
> +++ /tmp/ide-probe.c Fri Feb 18 08:45:43 2000
> @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
> ide_ioreg_t ide_control_reg = hwif->io_ports[IDE_CONTROL_OFFSET];
> ide_ioreg_t region_low = hwif->io_ports[IDE_DATA_OFFSET];
> ide_ioreg_t region_high = region_low;
> - ide_ioreg_t region_request = 8;
> + unsigned int region_request = 8;
> int i;

Geert,

I had revamped the ide-probe to grab and register each ioport on an item
basis, but that did not make it yet :-( There is still an ugly somewhere
to clean that is not up to par.....

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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