Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 14:35:56 -0400
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Morton Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] kconfigurable resources core changes
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On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:10:02AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 01:28:47PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > o Core changes for Kconfigurable memory and IO resources. By default resources
> >   are 64bit until chosen to be 32bit.
> > 
> > o Last time I posted the patches for 64bit memory resources but it raised
> >   the concerns regarding code bloat on 32bit systems who use 32 bit
> >   resources.
> > 
> > o This patch-set allows resources to be kconfigurable.
> > 
> > o I have done cross compilation on i386, x86_64, ppc, powerpc, sparc, sparc64
> >   ia64 and alpha.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
> 
> So do these replace all of your other patches sitting in my tree right
> now?
>

No. This patch set applies on top of the old patches.

Very few changes in the previous patches have been nullified, like
changing u64 to resource_size_t. There are lots of printk() statement
changes in previous patch set which are required to supress the compilation
warnings. That's the reason I kept new patches incremental.


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