From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: Make uart_port's ioport "resource_size_t"
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:38:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081016173811.b4fc7ba2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081016194437.14c7604b@zod.rchland.ibm.com>
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:44:37 -0400 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:46:45 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:26:21 -0400
> > Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Recently uart_port's iobase was changed to be an 'unsigned
> > > long' to avoid chopping off the upper 32-bits of the
> > > address on 64-bit CPUs. However, there are CPUs that are
> > > 32-bit but have a 64-bit address space. This changes
> > > iobase to be 'resource_size_t' to accommodate those types
> > > of systems. This also matches what is done for the mapbase
> > > member of uart_port.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h
> > > index e27f216..cb0185b 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/serial_core.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h
> > > @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ typedef unsigned int __bitwise__ upf_t;
> > >
> > > struct uart_port {
> > > spinlock_t lock; /* port lock */
> > > - unsigned long iobase; /* in/out[bwl] */
> > > + resource_size_t iobase; /* in/out[bwl] */
> > > unsigned char __iomem *membase; /* read/write[bwl] */
> > > unsigned int irq; /* irq number */
> > > unsigned int uartclk; /* base uart clock */
> >
> > This will of course require that all now-broken printk()s be unbroken.
> > I spot two in serial_core.c alone.
>
> Yes, I know that. There's a patch, or at least a discussion, floating
> around on how to fix this with a %pX thing right? We can delay this
> until that comes to fruition if you'd like.
>
Well. It just got converted from uint to ulong and we're still fixing
the bugs which that introduced.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-17 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-14 16:26 [PATCH] serial: Make uart_port's ioport "resource_size_t" Josh Boyer
2008-10-16 21:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-16 23:44 ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-17 0:38 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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