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From: Roman Fietze <roman.fietze@telemotive.de>
Organization: Telemotive AG
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Inconsistency in ioread functions, const pointer or not
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Hello,

Sorry if this subject was discussed before, but I could not find
anything except

  http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.0/0328.html

The old ioreadx routines have been macros using the appropriate readx
functions or macros, those in turn used some raw read functions, which
finally used a memory pointer like this one:

  static inline u8 __raw_readb(const volatile void __iomem *addr)

The iomap ioreadx functions have signatures like

  extern unsigned int ioread8(void __iomem *)

I can understand the discussion about the volatile qualifier, but how
about the const?

Any pointer to discussions about removing const would be helpful.

If there are none of them, does anybody know the reason for removing
the const?

Additional question would be about the return types and target types
for the pointer, why they are int instead of e.g. u8 or void * instead
of u8 *, but probably this has to be another thread or was discussed
somewhere else.


Roman

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