[RFT 00/13] iomap: Constify ioreadX() iomem argument

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Wed Jan 8 19:12:47 AEDT 2020


Hi Krzysztof,

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:07 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 5:53 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> wrote:
> > The ioread8/16/32() and others have inconsistent interface among the
> > architectures: some taking address as const, some not.
> >
> > It seems there is nothing really stopping all of them to take
> > pointer to const.
>
> Shouldn't all of them take const volatile __iomem pointers?
> It seems the "volatile" is missing from all but the implementations in
> include/asm-generic/io.h.

As my "volatile" comment applies to iowrite*(), too, probably that should be
done in a separate patch.

Hence with patches 1-5 squashed, and for patches 11-13:
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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