Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755808AbXLGA6S (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:58:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752867AbXLGA6K (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:58:10 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:48831 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752973AbXLGA6J (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:58:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:00:01 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: Fix bus resource assignment on 32 bits with 64b resources Message-ID: <20071207010001.GA23575@kroah.com> References: <20071205064116.D849BDE10A@ozlabs.org> <1196911347.7033.15.camel@pasglop> <20071206063940.GA16474@kroah.com> <1196927934.7033.39.camel@pasglop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1196927934.7033.39.camel@pasglop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1059 Lines: 30 On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:58:54PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:39 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > that is it can be either unsigned int, unsigned long or unsigned > > long > > > long... and we have no way to reliably printk that. > > > > We do this already just fine. Take a look in the kernel, I think we > > just always cast it to long long to be uniform. > > I wanted to avoid that for two reasons: > > - casts are fugly > - it adds support code to cast & handle 64 bits to 32 bits platforms > that wouldn't normally need it But that is how we already handle this today, in numerous places in the kernel for this very type. So, you can disagree that this is what we need to do, and if so, feel free to fix up a whole lot of files in the tree :) thanks, greg k-h -- 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/