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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PNP: make the resource type an unsigned long
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:08:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A0B852.4070107@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808111559.01575.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> I see hpa's point that it makes no functional difference, but I do
> think it's worthwhile to make the types match.  I don't want to
> debug the problem that happens when somebody adds an IORESOURCE_*
> flag in the upper bits.
> 

Then half the platforms break anyway.

We should change this to an explicit type.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-11 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-08  6:39 [PATCH] PNP: make the resource type an unsigned long Rene Herman
2008-08-08 21:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-09  5:21   ` Rene Herman
2008-08-09  5:25     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-09  5:32       ` Rene Herman
2008-08-11 21:59 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-11 22:08   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-08-11 22:18     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-12  4:15   ` Rene Herman

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