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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
	teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: Fix sparse warning
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:59:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150310085915.GB16501@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA5enKa5x5R2Z9+Sc4UzKFu+N9rKoh_sW7hfVN8CmmqhF9LMiw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 08:47:47AM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On 10 March 2015 at 07:00, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > No need for the volatile.
> 
> Will remove.
> 
> > Really mmio750 should be a "void __iomem *"
> > it is declared as "unsigned char __iomem *" but it's not a char pointer
> > that's only to make the pointer math work.  It would work just as well
> > as a void and we could remove some ugly casting.
> 
> I'm thinking the change to "void __iomem *" from "unsigned char
> __iomem *" ought to be a separate patch in order to keep this cleanly
> focused on solving the sparse warning? Am more than happy to do this
> and make the appropriate changes to the macros in ddk750_help.h.
> 

The patch is:

[patch] cleanup the type of mmio750

silencing a Sparse warning is just a side benifit of using correct
data types.  The "one thing per patch" rule also means that you should
fix a whole problem instead of half a thing per patch.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-10  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-09 20:57 [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: Fix sparse warning Lorenzo Stoakes
2015-03-10  7:00 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-03-10  8:47   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2015-03-10  8:59     ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-03-10  9:14       ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2015-03-10  7:42 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-03-10  8:44   ` Lorenzo Stoakes

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