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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial.c procfs 2nd try - discussion
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Russell King wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 05:41:09PM -0800, Ed Vance wrote:
>
>>2. Does anybody know of anything that will break because of the leading 
>>   zeros that are now present on the address field? 
>>
>
>I'm not overly happy with this idea - there isn't anything that says an
>ioport address has 4 digits.  I know of machines where an ioport address
>has 8, and I'm sure on the Alpha or Sparc64 its probably 16 digits.
>
Agreed.  Standard portability convention seems to say that one treats io 
ports and io mem both as unsigned long, including when printing...

    Jeff




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