proper way to deal with a sparse warning

From: Kumar Gala
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 01:18:12 EST


I'm getting the following sparse warning:

drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c:165:16: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c:165:16: expected void *priv
drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c:165:16: got struct gfar_mii [noderef] * [assigned] regs<asn:2>

This is line 165 of gianfar_mii.c:

new_bus->priv = regs;

new_bus->priv is of type void *. regs is of type struct gfar_mii __iomem *.

Is it acceptable to do the following:

new_bus->priv = (void __force *)regs;

- kumar

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