[PATCH v4] ARM: Fix sparse warnings due to variables conflicts.

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Fri Oct 8 13:36:15 EDT 2010


* Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com> [101008 04:24]:
> Poddar, Sourav had written, on 10/08/2010 12:53 AM, the following:
> >Fix the sparse warnings generated due to conflicts in variables used in readl/writel.
> >
> >
> >drivers/net/smc91x.c:312:8: warning: symbol '__v' shadows an earlier one
> >drivers/net/smc91x.c:312:8: originally declared here
> >
> >With this change, about 200 sparse warnings are fixed.
> The commit message could be a little more detailed.
> see http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=128648102511076&w=2
> 
> also should $subject say ARM: io: fix namespace conflict
> to better reflect the fix? sparse warnings are just an indication IMHO

BTW, also dropping the "OMAP: Convert write/read functions to raw read/write".

That patch does not compute, and also ends up leaving files with
__raw_readw followed by writew..

Regards,

Tony



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