From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: Make uart_port's ioport "resource_size_t"
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:44:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081016194437.14c7604b@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081016144645.1c868fc0.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:46:45 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:26:21 -0400
> Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > Recently uart_port's iobase was changed to be an 'unsigned
> > long' to avoid chopping off the upper 32-bits of the
> > address on 64-bit CPUs. However, there are CPUs that are
> > 32-bit but have a 64-bit address space. This changes
> > iobase to be 'resource_size_t' to accommodate those types
> > of systems. This also matches what is done for the mapbase
> > member of uart_port.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h
> > index e27f216..cb0185b 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/serial_core.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h
> > @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ typedef unsigned int __bitwise__ upf_t;
> >
> > struct uart_port {
> > spinlock_t lock; /* port lock */
> > - unsigned long iobase; /* in/out[bwl] */
> > + resource_size_t iobase; /* in/out[bwl] */
> > unsigned char __iomem *membase; /* read/write[bwl] */
> > unsigned int irq; /* irq number */
> > unsigned int uartclk; /* base uart clock */
>
> This will of course require that all now-broken printk()s be unbroken.
> I spot two in serial_core.c alone.
Yes, I know that. There's a patch, or at least a discussion, floating
around on how to fix this with a %pX thing right? We can delay this
until that comes to fruition if you'd like.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-16 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-14 16:26 Josh Boyer
2008-10-16 21:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-16 23:44 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-10-17 0:38 ` Andrew Morton
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