On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:39 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > that is it can be either unsigned int, unsigned long or unsigned
> > long
> > > long... and we have no way to reliably printk that.
> >
> > We do this already just fine. Take a look in the kernel, I think we
> > just always cast it to long long to be uniform.
>
> I wanted to avoid that for two reasons:
>
> - casts are fugly
> - it adds support code to cast & handle 64 bits to 32 bits platforms
> that wouldn't normally need it
Indeed. I still have a few places to fix it up in the Zorro bus code and
drivers. Everything is 32 bit, but allyesconfig sets CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT...
In some way I liked the recent suggestion to make CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT
depend on something...
> Now, if you really think that's the way to go, I'll respin with casts
> (I've used cast in subsequent patches merging bits & pieces of the
> powerpc 32 and 64 bits PCI code too in fact).
And casting to `unsigned long' for Zorro bus may sound fine, except what if
one day we'll need 64-bit resources for one platform?
> I was just hoping somebody had a better idea, like a way to add a new
> format specifier to printk without losing gcc type checking :-)
#define PRI* (...) ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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