Re: [PATCH 3/3] ata: sata_dwc_460ex: get rid of global data

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Dec 17 2015 - 10:37:43 EST


On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 15:19 +0000, MÃns RullgÃrd wrote:
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 23:25 +0000, Mans Rullgard wrote:
> > > This moves all global data into the driver private struct, thus
> > > permitting multiple devices of this type to be used.
> > >
> >
> > Nice!
> >
> > Btw, last time Linus complained about new warnings. Most of them I
> > have
> > fixed when moved to external DMA driver. Leftovers IIRC are related
> > to
> > address space. Are you going to fix them? Otherwise it might be a
> > headache for him again with strong wording to our address I
> > suppose.
>
> There are some issues with __iomem annotations.ÂÂIs that the warnings
> you refer to?ÂÂI'm not getting any regular compiler warnings.
>

I guess I got them because I'am checking sparse warnings as well.


There is the original Linus' complain.
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/59391

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy

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