On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Hans J. Koch wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:40:22PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: >> >> On Oct 12, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Hans J. Koch wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 05:32:29PM +0200, Hans J. Koch wrote: >>>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:35:45AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: >>>>> From: Kai Jiang <kai.ji...@freescale.com> >>>>> >>>>> To support >32-bit physical addresses for UIO_MEM_PHYS type we need to >>>>> extend the width of 'addr' in struct uio_mem. Numerous platforms like >>>>> embedded PPC, ARM, and X86 have support for systems with larger physical >>>>> address than logical. >>>>> >>>>> Since 'addr' may contain a physical, logical, or virtual address the >>>>> easiest solution is to just change the type to 'unsigned long long' >>>>> regardless of which type is utilized. >>>> >>>> No. There's phys_addr_t for that purpose, defined in include/linux/types.h. >>>> Please use that. >>> >>> I forgot: If you resend this, please update the documentation as well. >>> (Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl) >> >> What would you look added or modified here? > > struct uio_mem ? > > Hans
New version sent, let me know if there are any other aspects to the DocBook that need updating. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
