Re: [PATCH] devres: support addresses greater than an unsigned long via dev_ioremap

[Kumar Gala]

On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:37 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Kumar Gala wrote:
> > > Use a resource_size_t instead of unsigned long since some arch's are
> > > capable of having ioremap deal with addresses greater than the  
> > > size of a
> > > unsigned long.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Fine with me, too.
>
> I think devres changes should go via GregKH (device core) or Jesse  
> (PCI) rather than my libata tree, unless there are obvious  
> dependencies...

GregKH will you handle pushing this to Linus.  Its a pretty trivial  
patch and would be nice to go into 2.6.26.  I would also consider it a  
bug fix of shorts for any driver using devres and resource_size_t  
being typedef'd to u64 on a 32-bit processor.

- k
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