From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix ppc ioremap prototype
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:13:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030904071334.GA14426@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16214.34933.827653.37614@nanango.paulus.ozlabs.org>
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:33:57AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> I don't see why this is a problem. The change is compatible with the
> existing uses. We need to be able to map 36-bit physical addresses on
> 44x. What we really need now is 64-bit start/end values in struct
> resource.
Then add the phys_addr_t to all places where we deal with physical
addresses, even if it's typedef'ed to unsigned long on all other
arches and sane ppcs.
> > /me still boggles how a patch like that could have sneaked in without
> > a review on lkml..
>
> First, it's a PPC-only change, and secondly, it's been around for
> months in the linuxppc-2.5 tree - since June last year in fact, and
> even longer than that in the linuxppc_2_4_devel tree. Lkml is not
> where most PPC-specific stuff gets discussed, it's too noisy for that.
ioremap is not ppc-specific.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-04 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-03 20:32 [PATCH] fix ppc ioremap prototype Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04 0:33 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04 7:13 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-09-04 7:25 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 7:30 ` Russell King
2003-09-04 7:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04 8:09 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 8:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 8:10 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 8:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04 10:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-04 11:03 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04 12:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-04 12:41 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04 12:41 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 12:57 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-04 15:58 ` Deepak Saxena
2003-09-04 16:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-04 16:36 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-09-04 23:18 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-05 20:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-04 16:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 16:43 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 17:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 17:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-04 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-05 8:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-04 8:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04 9:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04 10:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-04 9:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04 9:36 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 9:48 ` Russell King
2003-09-04 9:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-04 12:38 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04 12:59 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-09-04 13:01 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 14:15 ` Matt Porter
2003-09-04 14:12 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 13:30 ` Russell King
2003-09-04 15:50 ` Deepak Saxena
2003-09-04 16:09 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 10:34 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-04 10:33 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 12:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-04 12:43 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 14:36 ` Matt Porter
2003-09-04 14:30 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 15:26 ` Matt Porter
2003-09-04 16:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
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