Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:13:05 +0100 | From | Thierry Reding <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] dma: pl330: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() |
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:39:59PM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote: > On 31 January 2013 12:58, Thierry Reding > <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:37:04PM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote: > >> Use the newly introduced devm_ioremap_resource() instead of > >> devm_request_and_ioremap() which provides more consistent error handling. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org> > >> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> > >> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> > >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > >> --- > >> This change is based against linux-next tree (20130128). > >> This change however introduces the followign sparse warning: > >> drivers/dma/pl330.c:2883:22: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) > >> drivers/dma/pl330.c:2883:22: expected void const *ptr > >> drivers/dma/pl330.c:2883:22: got void [noderef] <asn:2>*base > >> drivers/dma/pl330.c:2884:34: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) > >> drivers/dma/pl330.c:2884:34: expected void const *ptr > >> drivers/dma/pl330.c:2884:34: got void [noderef] <asn:2>*base > > > > Yes, those are false positives. They can be fixed with the two patches I > > posted a few hours ago, starting here: > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/30/455 > > OK. That's great. > > > > Note that the first patch is against sparse. The problem, in a nutshell, > > is that sparse complains that the pointer address spaces and noderef > > attributes differ. In the case of the IS_ERR() function and friends the > > attributes aren't relevant because only the pointer value is only used > > arithmetically. Unfortunately there is no way you can cast away these > > attributes without causing other warnings, so the solution is somewhat > > more complex. > > Thanks for the explaination. > However, is the patch for the dma relevant?
Yes, I forgot to add my Reviewed-by. Done now.
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