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Re: orinoco __iomem changes: msg#00007

Subject: Re: orinoco __iomem changes
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:44:00PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> Pavel (and/or others), could you give the latest for_linus branch a
> whirl.  I've just implemented a better way of avoiding the
> readw()/writew() warnings - no ugly and potentially unsafe cases.
> I've also put in sparse qualifiers to match.  It still needs to be
> converted to ioread()/iowrite(), but this is a step in that direction.
> 
> Compiles fine, and sparses almost clean (I don't understand the
> remaining warnings, which are unrelated to this change), but I no
> longer have a suitable setup to test.

Well, in the meantime, of course, Al Viro did the full iomap
conversion of the driver in mainline.  I've ported the changes back to
CVS and committed to the for_linus branch.  Testing would be good...

-- 
David Gibson                    | For every complex problem there is a
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au  | solution which is simple, neat and
                                | wrong.
http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson


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