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

[G, Manjunath Kondaiah]

Tony,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Lindgren [mailto:tony at atomide.com] 
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 11:06 PM
> To: Menon, Nishanth
> Cc: Poddar, Sourav; linux-omap at vger.kernel.org; 
> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; Shilimkar, Santosh; G, 
> Manjunath Kondaiah; Varadarajan, Charulatha
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ARM: Fix sparse warnings due to 
> variables conflicts.
> 
> * 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..
> 

Why to revert patch "OMAP: Convert write/read functions to raw read/write" 
since we need to replace other __raw_read/__raw_writel functions if above 
patch gets accepted.

-Manjunath