Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:28:41 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Expanding the size of "start" and "end" field in "struct resource" |
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:29:32PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > If the impact is very slight or unmeasurable this means the option > needs to fall under CONFIG_EMBEDDED, where you can change if > every last bit of RAM counts but otherwise you won't care.
But we have a data type that is correct for this usage: dma_addr_t.
> Having > 32bit values on a 32bit platform is not the issue. > > Some drivers appear to puke simply because the value is 64bit. Which > means the driver will have problems on any 64bit kernel. That kind > of behavior is worth purging.
Forcing it to be a 64 bit value doesn't fix that problem, so that isn't a valid excuse for adding bloat.
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