Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264831AbTIDHl5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:41:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264778AbTIDHje (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:39:34 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([212.34.189.10]:55498 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264776AbTIDHiu (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:38:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:38:45 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Paul Mackerras , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix ppc ioremap prototype Message-ID: <20030904073845.GA14669@lst.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Paul Mackerras , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030903203231.GA8772@lst.de> <16214.34933.827653.37614@nanango.paulus.ozlabs.org> <20030904071334.GA14426@lst.de> <20030904083007.B2473@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030904083007.B2473@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: -5 () EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 798 Lines: 18 On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > But phys_addr_t in struct resource and being passed into ioremap is > confusing. Apparantly, it isn't a physical address, but a platform > defined cookie which just happens to look like a physical address. > > (or are we finally going to admit that it is a physical address?) Umm, right, so the typedef name is also completly bogus, if we're going to go that route it needs to be something likeb iocookie_t. See why I want stuff like this on lkml? It has implication far beyond ppc.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/