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abramo@alsa-project.org said:
> The problem I see is that with the former solution nothing prevents
> from to do:

> regs->reg2 = 13;

> That's indeed the reason to change ioremap prototype for 2.5.

An alternative is to add an fixed offset to the cookie before returning it,
and subtract it again in {read,write}[bwl].

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dwmw2


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