Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265270AbTIDRNq (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:13:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265290AbTIDRNq (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:13:46 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:48516 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265270AbTIDRNh (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:13:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3F5772B2.402@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 13:13:22 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Geert Uytterhoeven , Paul Mackerras , Christoph Hellwig , "David S. Miller" , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix ppc ioremap prototype References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 675 Lines: 20 Linus Torvalds wrote: > I think that in the 2.7.x timeframe, the right thing to do is definitely: > - move towards using "struct resource" and "ioremap_resource()" > - make resource sizes potentially be larger (ie use "u64" instead of > "unsigned long") Would still be nice to have a sysdata or struct device pointer in struct resource, then. I'm not a fan of wacky bus-info-encoded-in-another-number schemes. Jeff - 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/