linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] devres: support addresses greater than an unsigned long via dev

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Message-Id: <C415A4D5-CE5A-4E48-B5D5-0B9A6C7A5CA6@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:08:14 -0500
From:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...abs.org list" <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	lkml Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devres: support addresses greater than an unsigned long via dev_ioremap


On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:37 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> Use a resource_size_t instead of unsigned long since some arch's are
>>> capable of having ioremap deal with addresses greater than the  
>>> size of a
>>> unsigned long.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
>> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
>
> Fine with me, too.
>
> I think devres changes should go via GregKH (device core) or Jesse  
> (PCI) rather than my libata tree, unless there are obvious  
> dependencies...

GregKH will you handle pushing this to Linus.  Its a pretty trivial  
patch and would be nice to go into 2.6.26.  I would also consider it a  
bug fix of shorts for any driver using devres and resource_size_t  
being typedef'd to u64 on a 32-bit processor.

- k
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