From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org list" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
lkml Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devres: support addresses greater than an unsigned long via dev_ioremap
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:23:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080429152331.GC11329@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C415A4D5-CE5A-4E48-B5D5-0B9A6C7A5CA6@kernel.crashing.org>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:08:14AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:37 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>> Use a resource_size_t instead of unsigned long since some arch's are
>>>> capable of having ioremap deal with addresses greater than the size of a
>>>> unsigned long.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
>>> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
>>
>> Fine with me, too.
>>
>> I think devres changes should go via GregKH (device core) or Jesse (PCI)
>> rather than my libata tree, unless there are obvious dependencies...
>
> GregKH will you handle pushing this to Linus. Its a pretty trivial patch
> and would be nice to go into 2.6.26. I would also consider it a bug fix of
> shorts for any driver using devres and resource_size_t being typedef'd to
> u64 on a 32-bit processor.
Sure, I'd be glad to. But I don't see the patch, care to resend it to
me?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 6:22 [PATCH] devres: support addresses greater than an unsigned long via dev_ioremap Kumar Gala
2008-04-29 6:30 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-29 6:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-29 14:08 ` Kumar Gala
2008-04-29 15:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-04-29 15:25 ` [PATCH][RESEND] " Kumar Gala
2008-04-30 18:42 ` patch devres-support-addresses-greater-than-an-unsigned-long-via-dev_ioremap.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh
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