linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Only show RESOURCES_64BIT on relevant architectures

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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:10:10 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only show RESOURCES_64BIT on relevant architectures

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 04:15:49PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> To quote lolcats: CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT DO NOT WANT!
> 
> I *think* I have the logic of this right... Anyway, I was annoyed by
> having to do the bloody ugly casts to unsigned long long in
> arch-specific code. As near as I can tell, we only want this selectable
> in the case of PAE on x86, and some random PPC and MIPS embedded boards.

May I suggest trying:

$ grep RESOURCES_64BIT=y arch/*/configs/* arch/*/defconfig

to locate those architectures which use this?

FYI, that grep says ARM, ia64, mips, parisc, powerpc, PPC, s390, sparc64,
and x86 use this feature.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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