Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:35:38 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Does io_remap_page_range() take 5 or 6 args? |
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Dave Miller wrote: >> Each platform needs different args, unfortunately.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:15:41PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > Doesn't that make it kinda rough on the folks trying to write > arch-independent code, such as sound/core/pcm_native.c that I am > tripping over? > I can imagine a possible 'solution' something like (1) always passing > six args, and (2) providing arch-dependent macros to generate those last > two args, from some arch-generic value. > Just brainstorming ...
This would not be useful. The extra argument is so that 64-bit values don't have to be passed. Keeping the minimal number of arguments and changing its meaning to be a pfn will suffice for the purposes here.
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