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Message-ID: <48F83609.4090407@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:51:53 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	rdreier@...co.com, Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, yhlu.kernel@...il.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split()

David Miller wrote:
>>>
>> IMNSHO I think you can default to 8 digits for I/O for PCI, since at least last I looked there was no 64-bit address space possible for I/O.
> 
> Resources are representing different things on different platforms.
> 
> On sparc64 it's actually the full 64-bit physical I/O address on the
> system bus being stored in there.  So even IORESOURCE_IO objects have
> 64-bits of relevancy.
> 

And then it should be printed as such on that platform.

> Like I said, printing out the entire thing has helped me find real
> bugs, so printing the whole thing is not without merit.

No argument there.  I was referring only to platforms where the resource 
contains a PCI I/O address, which is 32 bits long unless limited by 
additional constraints (like x86's 16-bit limit.)

	-hpa
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