From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751315AbWCOUjV (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:39:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751327AbWCOUjV (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:39:21 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:53974 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751315AbWCOUjU (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:39:20 -0500 To: Kumar Gala Cc: Arjan van de Ven , vgoyal@in.ibm.com, linux kernel mailing list , Fastboot mailing list , Morton Andrew Morton , gregkh@suse.de Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Expanding the size of "start" and "end" field in "struct resource" References: <20060315193114.GA7465@in.ibm.com> <1142452665.3021.43.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <006E591F-5F82-4B79-8D1A-581B6AF00185@kernel.crashing.org> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:37:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: <006E591F-5F82-4B79-8D1A-581B6AF00185@kernel.crashing.org> (Kumar Gala's message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:28:42 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kumar Gala writes: > Warnings primarily, however I think some places have assumptions about size > that have to be looked at. Ok. So nothing too bad just a thorough audit. Although any driver that has a real problem with a 64bit type is already broken on every 64bit arch. And we do need the 64bit type so we can handle 64bit pci resources on x86 and ppc32 at some point. Eric