On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:15 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <k...@kernel.org> wrote:
> > The __force-cast that removes the __iomem here also means that > > the 'volatile' keyword could be dropped from the argument list, > > as it has no real effect any more, but then there are a few drivers > > that mark their iomem pointers as either 'volatile void __iomem*' or > > (worse) 'volatile void *', so we keep it in the argument list to not > > add warnings for those drivers. > > > > It may be time to change these drivers to not use volatile for __iomem > > pointers, but that seems out of scope for what Krzysztof is trying > > to do. Ideally we would be consistent here though, either using volatile > > all the time or never. > > Indeed. I guess there are no objections around const so let me send v2 > for const only. Ok, sounds good. Maybe mention in the changelog then that the 'volatile' in the interface is intentionally left out, and that only users of readl/writel still have it to deal with existing drivers. Arnd _______________________________________________ linux-snps-arc mailing list linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-snps-arc