From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ed Vance <EdV@macrolink.com>,
"'linux-serial'" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
"'linux-kernel'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"'Alan Cox'" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial.c procfs 2nd try - discussion
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 04:27:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C8DC9FC.7080004@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11E89240C407D311958800A0C9ACF7D13A76EF@EXCHANGE> <20020312091144.A11914@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 05:41:09PM -0800, Ed Vance wrote:
>
>>2. Does anybody know of anything that will break because of the leading
>> zeros that are now present on the address field?
>>
>
>I'm not overly happy with this idea - there isn't anything that says an
>ioport address has 4 digits. I know of machines where an ioport address
>has 8, and I'm sure on the Alpha or Sparc64 its probably 16 digits.
>
Agreed. Standard portability convention seems to say that one treats io
ports and io mem both as unsigned long, including when printing...
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-12 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-12 1:41 [PATCH] serial.c procfs 2nd try - discussion Ed Vance
2002-03-12 9:11 ` Russell King
2002-03-12 9:27 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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