On 12/09/13 at 04:05pm, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:42:14PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > There's a lot of sparse warnings for code like below: > > void *a = early_memremap(phys_addr, size); > > > > early_memremap intend to map kernel memory with ioremap facility, the return > > pointer should be a kernel ram pointer instead of iomem one. > > > > For making the function clearer and supressing sparse warnings this patch > > do below two things: > > 1. cast to (__force void *) for the return value of early_memremap > > I'd guess this is to shut up the __iomem thing? And we're getting that > because we're using ioremap, ... hohum... Yes, IMHO early_memremap really should not return __iomem pointer since it's *memremap*... Thanks Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
