On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 10:10:45PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The newly added hwmon driver fails to build in an allmodconfig > kernel: > > ERROR: "memblock_is_memory" [drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.ko] undefined! > > According to comments in the code, the mailbox is a shared memory region, > not a set of MMIO registers, so we should use memremap() for mapping it > instead of ioremap or acpi_os_ioremap, and pointer dereferences instead > of readl/writel. > > The driver already uses plain kernel pointers, so it's a bit unusual > to work with functions that operate on __iomem pointers, and this > fixes that part too. > > I'm using READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE here to keep the existing behavior > regarding the ordering of the accesses from the CPU, but note that > there are no barriers (also unchanged from before). > > I'm also keeping the endianess behavior, though I'm unsure whether > the message data was supposed to be in LE32 format in the first > place, it's possible this was meant to be interpreted as a byte > stream instead. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Applied after 's/endianess/endianness/' to make checkpatch happy. Thanks, Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
