[U-Boot-Users] [RFC/PATCH] fix initdram / use of phys_addr_t

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Kumar,

in message <96DCB2C0-3028-4A5B-A6F4-5CC3767A5040@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> 
> would phys_size_t be better?

Yes, definitely much better :-)

> >> +phys_addr_t initdram(int board_type)
> >> {
> >> -	long dram_size = 0;
> >> +	phys_addr_t dram_size = 0;
> >
> > No - initdram() does not return an address, it returns a size.
> 
> Sure, I understand it returns a size.  I was just using phys_addr_t to  
> represent the type for both addresses and sizes.

I think that would be misleading. To me, phys_addr_t looks like a
pointer type, while *_size_t is an (unsigned?) integer type.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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