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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:58:55 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 64bit resources start end value fix
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:41:21 -0400
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> > > @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioport_resource);
> > >  
> > >  struct resource iomem_resource = {
> > >  	.name	= "PCI mem",
> > > -	.start	= 0UL,
> > > -	.end	= ~0UL,
> > > +	.start	= 0,
> > > +	.end	= -1,
> > >  	.flags	= IORESOURCE_MEM,
> > >  };
> > >  
> > 
> > Confused.  This patch won't apply.  It will apply with `patch -R', and if
> > you do that you'll break iomem_reosurce.end by setting it to
> > 0x00000000ffffffff.
> > 
> > I don't think any additional changes are needed here.
> 
> Andrew, you don't have to apply this patch. It is supposed to be picked
> by Greg.
> 
> There seems to be some confusion. Just few days back Greg consolidated
> and re-organized all the 64bit resources patches and posted on LKML for
> review.
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115015916118671&w=2
> 
> There were few review comments regarding kconfig options.
> I reworked the patch and CONFING_RESOURCES_32BIT was changed to
> CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT.
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115072559700302&w=2
> 
> Now Greg's tree and your tree are not exact replica when it comes to 
> 64bit resource patches. Hence this patch is supposed to be picked by 
> Greg to make sure things are not broken in his tree.

I'm working against Greg's tree, always...