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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: ehabkost@redhat.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 3] add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:02:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080822130235.af69ccb5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73196c9129c7298f2428.1219176170@localhost>

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:02:50 -0700
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> Add a kernel-wide "phys_addr_t" which is guaranteed to be able to hold
> any physical address.  By default it equals the word size of the
> architecture, but a 32-bit architecture can set ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
> if it needs a 64-bit phys_addr_t.
> 

You say this is a bugfix but you don't describe the bug.  This makes it
rather hard to make the 2.6.2[5678] decisions.

Ditto on [patch 2/3].

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-22 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-19 20:02 [PATCH 0 of 3] define and use phys_addr_t Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-19 20:02 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-22 20:02   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-08-22 21:11     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-22 21:35       ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-22 22:30         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-24  9:39   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-24 16:59     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-19 20:02 ` [PATCH 2 of 3] make PFN_PHYS explicitly return phys_addr_t Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-19 20:02 ` [PATCH 3 of 3] redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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