Re: [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: Cleanup the type of mmio750

From: Lorenzo Stoakes
Date: Tue Mar 10 2015 - 09:22:10 EST


On 10 March 2015 at 13:06, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You should have said that in the patch description or under the ---
> cut off. But anyway, it's not ok. And we'll need to redo this patch.
> Breaking up patches into logical changes is sort of tricky because
> everything touches everything else so the patch gets larger and larger.
>

Major apologies, I am still getting used to kernel development! I'll
be careful to not make such assumptions in future when it comes to
warnings/errors.

[snip]

> But maybe it's only one line larger than the patch you just send? In
> that case just fold it in and don't do the temporary casting.
>
> The next patch after that could get rid of all the ramaining "volatile"
> keywords.

It seems that we can in fact fix this problem with a single additional
change, I will submit a v2 shortly.

Best,

--
Lorenzo Stoakes
https:/ljs.io
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