What types are the parameters of memcpy_toio?

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Sun May 16 2004 - 23:05:44 EST


This may be a silly question, but what are the types of the parameters
of memcpy_toio and memcpy_fromio? I was under the impression that IO
addresses are "cookies" and not pointers, and hence should be kept as
unsigned long.

However, <asm-x86_64/io.h> declares them as

void *memcpy_fromio(void*,const void*,unsigned);
void *memcpy_toio(void*,const void*,unsigned);

which means my code (which uses unsigned long) gets warnings like

warning: passing arg 1 of `memcpy_toio' makes pointer from integer without a cast

Other architectures seem to expect the IO address to be unsigned long
and explicitly cast it to a pointer.

Thanks,
Roland
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