linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make PFN_PHYS return a properly-formed physical address

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Date:	Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:06:17 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	ehabkost@...hat.com, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make PFN_PHYS return a properly-formed physical address

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:45:12 -0700
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

> Shall we go with just using plain u64 (or unsigned long long if we want 
> a really consistent type) in the meantime, and then waffle about 
> introducing a new type everywhere?
> 
> Or we could redefine resource_size_t to be big enough to refer to any 
> resource, including all memory.  It's close to being that anyway.

We could do

	typedef resource_size_t jeremy_thing_t;

for now and worry about it later if the need arises, perhaps.
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