From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] pcmcia: Convert io_req_t to use unsigned int
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:44:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071028134414.GF26943@isilmar.linta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071019201720.GA13234@lixom.net>
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:17:20PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Convert the io_req_t members to unsigned int, to allow use on machines
> with more than 16 bits worth of IO ports (i.e. secondary busses on
> ppc64, etc).
Agreed, though I'd prefer if we got rid of kio_addr_t at the same time, and
convert its users to unsigned int as well -- as was pointed out earlier in
this thread, there's no known usage of IO ports larger than 32 bits.
Dominik
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] pcmcia: Convert io_req_t to use unsigned int
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:44:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071028134414.GF26943@isilmar.linta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071019201720.GA13234@lixom.net>
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:17:20PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Convert the io_req_t members to unsigned int, to allow use on machines
> with more than 16 bits worth of IO ports (i.e. secondary busses on
> ppc64, etc).
Agreed, though I'd prefer if we got rid of kio_addr_t at the same time, and
convert its users to unsigned int as well -- as was pointed out earlier in
this thread, there's no known usage of IO ports larger than 32 bits.
Dominik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-28 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-05 14:27 [PATCH] pcmcia: Convert io_req_t to use kio_addr_t Olof Johansson
2007-09-05 14:27 ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-14 10:48 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-14 10:48 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-14 16:52 ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-14 16:52 ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-21 22:15 ` [PATCH v2] " Olof Johansson
2007-09-21 22:15 ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-21 22:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-21 22:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-22 6:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-22 6:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-22 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-22 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-19 20:17 ` [PATCH v3] pcmcia: Convert io_req_t to use unsigned int Olof Johansson
2007-10-19 20:17 ` Olof Johansson
2007-10-28 13:44 ` Dominik Brodowski [this message]
2007-10-28 13:44 ` Dominik Brodowski
2007-10-28 20:10 ` [PATCH] pcmcia: Remove replace kio_addr_t with unsigned int everywhere Olof Johansson
2007-10-28 20:18 ` [PATCH v2] " Olof Johansson
2007-10-28 23:50 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-10-28 23:50 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-10-29 0:16 ` Olof Johansson
2007-10-29 0:16 ` Olof Johansson
2007-11-04 9:11 ` Komuro
2007-11-04 9:11 ` Komuro
2007-09-22 15:11 ` [PATCH v2] pcmcia: Convert io_req_t to use kio_addr_t Olof Johansson
2007-09-22 15:11 ` Olof Johansson
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