[PATCHv6] ARM: imx: Add iram allocator functions

Lothar Waßmann LW at KARO-electronics.de
Fri Oct 8 09:53:31 EDT 2010


Hi,

Dinh.Nguyen at freescale.com writes:
[...]
> +void __iomem *iram_alloc(unsigned int size, unsigned long *dma_addr)
> +{
> +	if (!iram_pool)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	*dma_addr = gen_pool_alloc(iram_pool, size);
> +	pr_debug("iram alloc - %dB at 0x%p\n", size, (void *)*dma_addr);
                                                  ^^^^^^^^
Is there any reason to insist on this silly type cast instead of using
the format string that fits the data type?


Lothar Waßmann
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