Re: [PATCH] Fix readw/writew warnings in drivers/net/wireless/hermes.h

[Cal Peake <cp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, David Gibson wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:34:20PM +0530, Ricky lloyd wrote:
> > > Isn't the correct fix to declare iobase as (void __iomem *) ?
> > > 
> > 
> > Earlier today i had posted a patch which mainly fixes this same
> > problem with lotsa scsi
> > drivers and tulip drivers. I wondered the same "shouldnt all the addrs
> > be declared as
> > void __iomem* ??". 
> 
> The trouble with that is that for some versions of the orinoco card,
> the iobase refers to a legacy ISA IO address, not a memory-mapped IO
> address (that's the inw()/outw() path in the macro).  That needs an
> integer, rather than a pointer.
> 
> It's not clear to me which way around the cast is less ugly.

I guess the cast is kludgy. I just wanted to shut the warnings up, it 
prints 68 of 'em I believe.

-- Cal