Re: [PATCH 22/27] serial: Make uart_port's ioport "unsigned long".

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Oct 10 2008 - 12:19:59 EST


From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:54:34 -0400

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:50:56AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> >From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Otherwise the top 32-bits of the resource value get chopped
> >off on 64-bit systems, and the resulting I/O accesses go to
> >random places.
> >
> >Thanks to testing and debugging by Josip Rodin, which helped
> >track this down.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I emailed on an earlier posting of this about using resource_size_t
> instead as we have 32-bit CPUs with 64-bit address spaces. If I'm
> totally wrong, that's fine but I'm still wondering if that would be
> a better general solution.

That seems like a fine idea to me, please post a follow-on patch
if you like :-)
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