On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 15:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:28:07 +0200 Andy Shevchenko > <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > While resource_size_t is repeating phys_addr_t, allocate %par specifier for > > that type for sake of consistency. > > > > I'm struggling to see the value in this. A more detailed changelog > would help, explaining why you think the kernel would benefit from > this. > > Are there callsites which should be converted? If so, a patch which > does at least some of those would be helpful.
A resource_size_t isn't a different size than a phys_addr_t. Not so far anyway. $ git grep typedef.*resource_size_t include include/linux/types.h:typedef phys_addr_t resource_size_t; Is there an arch that needs a different size? If not, why add another case? Just to make the kernel larger?
