Re: [RFC][PATCH] Expanding the size of "start" and "end" field in "struct resource"

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mar 15, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > One of the possible solutions to this problem is that expand the size
> > of "start" and "end" to "unsigned long long". But whole of the PCI  
> > and
> > driver code has been written assuming start and end to be unsigned  
> > long
> > and compiler starts throwing warnings.
>
>
> please use dma_addr_t then instead of unsigned long long
>
> this is the right size on all platforms afaik (could a ppc64 person
> verify this?> ;)

Actually we really just want "start" and "end" to be u64 on all  
platforms.  Linus was ok with this change but no one has gone through  
and fixed everything that would be required for it.

- kumar
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