[net-next-2.6 PATCH v2] can: SJA1000: generic OF platform bus driver

Wolfgang Grandegger wg at grandegger.com
Mon May 25 16:58:21 EST 2009


Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

Is that common practice? If yes, I will add a member to store the
virtual address to struct sja1000_priv.

Wolfgang.



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