Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Expanding the size of "start" and "end" field in "struct resource" | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:37:57 -0700 |
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Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> Warnings primarily, however I think some places have assumptions about size > that have to be looked at.
Ok. So nothing too bad just a thorough audit. Although any driver that has a real problem with a 64bit type is already broken on every 64bit arch.
And we do need the 64bit type so we can handle 64bit pci resources on x86 and ppc32 at some point.
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