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) Thanks, Hans _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
