Re: [PATCH] rt28xx: Make PCI_{MAP,UNMAP}_SINGLE type-safe

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Sun Mar 28 2010 - 22:04:30 EST


On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:58:48 +0100
Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 10:52 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:24:45 +0100
> > Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > To avoid recurrence of bugs such as <http://bugs.debian.org/575726>,
> > > change the type of the first parameter to linux_pci_{map,unmap}_single()
> > > from void * to struct rt_rtmp_adapter *. Also do not define the macros
> > > PCI_{MAP,UNMAP}_SINGLE() when building the rt2870sta driver; they are
> > > not used and if they were that would be a bug.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/staging/rt2860/rt_linux.h | 14 +++++---------
> > > drivers/staging/rt2860/rt_pci_rbus.c | 12 ++++--------
> > > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> >
> > I think using dma_map_single directly instead of inventing a wrapper
> > function make the code more readable.
>
> These functions are not quite simple wrappers, unfortunately. So while
> I think that is worth doing it is a separate change.

Well, the current wrapper functions looks terrible. Needs to fix them
before moving the driver out of the staging anyway, I think.
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