Re: [PATCH] Fix broken debug output reserve_region_with_split()

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17T21:46:52Z

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 14:11 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So the default is all the wrong way around. Make the defaults the sane
> ones: 04x for IO, and 08x for MMIO, and then see if anybody wants anything
> else. I seriously doubt they do. The whole ".. but but sparc" argument
> seems to be entirely based on the total mis-conception of truncation that
> has no relevance.

Well, I definitely want 08x for IO on powerpc and I suspect anything
non-x86 or alpha does as well... So I'm fine but I'd like to keep
the default for IO at 08x unless you really have a strong opinion
against it.

Cheers,
Ben.