On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:29:32PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > If the impact is very slight or unmeasurable this means the option > needs to fall under CONFIG_EMBEDDED, where you can change if > every last bit of RAM counts but otherwise you won't care. But we have a data type that is correct for this usage: dma_addr_t. > Having > 32bit values on a 32bit platform is not the issue. > > Some drivers appear to puke simply because the value is 64bit. Which > means the driver will have problems on any 64bit kernel. That kind > of behavior is worth purging. Forcing it to be a 64 bit value doesn't fix that problem, so that isn't a valid excuse for adding bloat. -ben -- "Time is of no importance, Mr. President, only life is important." Don't Email: <[email protected]>. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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