Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The e1000 driver stores the content of the PCI resources into
> unsigned long's before ioremapping. This breaks on 32 bits
> platforms that support 64 bits MMIO resources such as ppc 44x.
>
> This fixes it by removing those temporary variables and passing
> directly the result of pci_resource_start/len to ioremap.
the patch is mostly fine, but looking through the tree, doesn't every
driver that has 64 bit capable resources have this problem?
in fact, skeleton module has this problem, if I'm not mistaken. e1000
isn't the only one. :-)
> The side effect is that I removed the assignments to the netdev
> fields mem_start, mem_end and base_addr, which are totally useless
> for PCI devices.
also, concerning this, ifconfig shows the output of these variables, I
don't think we want to blatantly remove them, as it is actually removing
information that is, if not used, at least displayed to user space.
eth6 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:01:0C:02:03
inet addr:134.134.3.121 Bcast:134.134.3.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:1ff:fe0c:203/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9022519 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1303701 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4044613454 (3857.2 Mb) TX bytes:118365109 (112.8 Mb)
Base address:0xf000 Memory:feac0000-feae0000
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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