[net-next-2.6 PATCH v2] can: SJA1000: generic OF platform bus driver
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Mon May 25 08:27:14 EST 2009
On Saturday 23 May 2009, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > Minor nitpicking: dev->base_addr should be defined as an __iomem pointer
> > so you can avoid the cast here and in the ioremap/iounmap path.
>
> Here the member "base_addr" of "struct net_device" is used and it's not
> up to me to change the type.
Right, that makes sense. However, most drivers use the field to store the
physical address, not the iomap token. Maybe there should be a new field
in struct sja1000_priv for the virtual address, but that would be a change
to the base driver, not just to the OF portion.
Thanks,
Arnd <><
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