From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>,
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] ARM: shmobile: use __iomem pointers for MMIO
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:50:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120918115038.GB3198@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201209180831.06572.arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:31:06AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 September 2012, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:34:29PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > ARM is moving to stricter checks on readl/write functions,
> > > so we need to use the correct types everywhere.
> > >
> > > This patch is a bit ugly for shmobile, which is the only platform
> > > that just uses integer literals all over the place, but I can't
> > > see a better way to do this.
> > >
> > > Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
> > > Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
> > > Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
> > > Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > Wow, thats a lot of chrun, but if we must
> >
> > Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
> >
>
> I agree it's not nice to have to do this, but this is largely because
> of shmobile doing things differently from all other ARM platforms, on
> which the respective patches tend to clean up things and reduce the
> number of type casts.
>
> The only alternative I can see is for shmobile to introduce its own
> mach/io.h file with the relaxed type checking, but that would only
> defer the problem until the point where you want shmobile to be part
> of the common multiplatform kernel binary.
If it is needed in the long term, then I'm happy with it going in now.
Could you remove the portion that Paul objected to?
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2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 01/24] ARM: shmobile: use __iomem pointers for MMIO Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-18 7:11 ` Simon Horman
2012-09-18 8:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-18 11:50 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2012-09-18 16:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-18 23:56 ` Simon Horman
2012-09-18 7:42 ` Paul Mundt
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 02/24] ARM: at91: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-17 7:56 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-09-18 8:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 03/24] ARM: ebsa110: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 04/24] ARM: ep93xx: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 22:14 ` Ryan Mallon
2012-09-15 7:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 05/24] ARM: imx: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 22:31 ` Fabio Estevam
2012-09-15 17:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-16 7:21 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 06/24] ARM: integrator: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-16 22:19 ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-16 22:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-16 22:46 ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-16 23:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 07/24] ARM: iop13xx: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 08/24] ARM: iop32x: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 09/24] ARM: ixp4xx: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-18 10:31 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2012-09-18 19:22 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2012-09-19 13:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-18 20:12 ` [PATCH 08+09/24] " Krzysztof Halasa
2012-09-18 21:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 10/24] ARM: ks8695: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 11/24] ARM: lpc32xx: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 12/24] ARM: msm: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 22:38 ` Stephen Boyd
2012-09-15 5:16 ` David Brown
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 13/24] ARM: nomadik: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-16 22:24 ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 14/24] ARM: prima2: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 15/24] ARM: sa1100: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 16/24] ARM: spear13xx: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 17/24] ARM: OMAP: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-15 18:10 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-09-15 20:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-16 20:38 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-09-17 21:25 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-09-19 13:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-19 13:36 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-09-19 16:44 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 18/24] ARM: samsung: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 19/24] sh: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-18 7:37 ` Paul Mundt
2012-09-18 8:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 20/24] input: rpcmouse: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-19 17:06 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 21/24] serial: ks8695: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 23:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 22/24] scsi: eesox: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 23:27 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-15 8:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-15 8:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-15 10:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-17 22:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-18 8:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 23/24] video: da8xx-fb: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 21:34 ` [PATCH 24/24] net: seeq: " Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 23:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-15 4:00 ` David Miller
2012-09-18 8:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-15 11:33 ` [PATCH 13/24] ARM: nomadik: " Alessandro Rubini
2012-09-28 20:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
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