Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:24:48 +0200 | From | Thierry Reding <> | Subject | Re: [RFC: PATCH] err.h: silence warning when using IS_ERR on void __iomem * |
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:55:17AM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote: > On 13 June 2013 03:01, Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> wrote: > > Commit 75096579c3ac ("lib: devres: Introduce devm_ioremap_resource()") > > introduced devm_ioremap_resource() and encourage to check its return value with > > IS_ERR(). This however leads to the following sparse warnings, as > > devm_ioremap_resource() returns a void __iomem pointer: > > > > drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can_platform.c:205:32: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) > > drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can_platform.c:205:32: expected void const *ptr > > drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can_platform.c:205:32: got unsigned int [noderef] [usertype] <asn:2>*raminit_ctrlreg > > CC ing Thierry who has solved this issue some time back.
I had sent two patches, one against sparse, the other against the kernel, but none were picked up yet.
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