Re: [PATCH 1/8] IB/cxgb4: Fix formatting of physical address

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 15:14 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 22:02 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 14:58 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 21:50 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > Physical addresses may be wider than virtual addresses (e.g. on i386
> > > > with PAE) and must not be formatted with %p.
> > > 
> > > %pa works.  %pa also prefixes with 0x.
> > 
> > Only as long as pci_resource_start() happens to be an lvalue.  I'd
> > rather not introduce that assumption.
> 
> pci_resource_start returns a resource_size_t which is a phys_addr_t.
> 
> Changing that from an lvalue would cause a _lot_ of breakage.

I don't think so.  This doesn't find anything:
    git grep '&[ (]*pci_resource_start'

and I was able to build drivers/{net,pci,scsi}/ successfully with
pci_resource_start() changed to an inline function.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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