Re: [PATCH] spi/xilinx: Cast ioread32/iowrite32 function pointers

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Jan 29 2015 - 11:04:16 EST


On Thursday 29 January 2015 15:51:13 Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> * Setup little endian helper functions first and try to use them
> * and check if bit was correctly setup or not.
> */
> - xspi->read_fn = ioread32;
> - xspi->write_fn = iowrite32;
> + xspi->read_fn = (u32 (*)(void __iomem *)) ioread32;
> + xspi->write_fn = (void (*)(u32, void __iomem *)) iowrite32;
>
> xspi->write_fn(XSPI_CR_LOOP, xspi->regs + XSPI_CR_OFFSET);
>

Casting the type of a function you call seems rather dangerous. Why not
add an inline function in this driver as a wrapper?

Arnd
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