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Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:23:31 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
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 Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:08:14AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> 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.

Sure, I'd be glad to.  But I don't see the patch, care to resend it to
me?

thanks,

greg k-h
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