Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: ii_pci20kc: iobase and ioaddr are void__iomem *

From: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue Jun 05 2012 - 02:15:43 EST


On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:15:12AM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 2012-05-22 09:11, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:10:07PM -0700, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> >>@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static int pci20xxx_attach(struct comedi_device *dev,
> >> if (ret< 0)
> >> return ret;
> >>
> >>- devpriv->ioaddr = (void *)(unsigned long)it->options[0];
> >>+ devpriv->ioaddr = (void __iomem *)(unsigned long)it->options[0];
> >
> >
> >Obviously, your patch is fine, but I was wondering if it was a
> >problem that it->options was only a 32 bit? Seems like it would
> >deserve a comment.
>
> Yes, it's a bit of a strange driver, this one. It's a driver for a
> module sitting on a PCI card, but there is no driver I know of for
> the PCI card, and I've no idea what's actually ioremap'ing the
> memory!
>
> Maybe we should quietly drop it and see if anyone complains?

I'm all for deleting code :)

Send me a patch removing it and I'll be glad to apply it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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