Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2007 17:57:31 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: ppc64 needs 64-bit ioaddr_t | From | (Olof Johansson) |
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On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:46:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:31:05AM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote: > > ppc64 really needs ioaddr_t to be 64-bit, since I/O addresses really > > are MMIO addresses, and remapped to a high range. > > > > While the type is exported to userspace, there hasn't been any platforms > > with PCMCIA on 64-bit powerpc until now, so changing it won't regress > > any existing users. > > In fact the only use of the type should be in the obsolete ioctl-based user > interface. So instead of changing the size of the type you should > > a) make sure you're not using cardmgr > b) fix up those places that still use ioaddr_t where they shouldn't > and switch the to kio_addr_t (why not just unsigned long like all > other busses?)
I just noticed that feature-removal-schedule.txt says November 2005 for the removal of the pcmcia ioctl's, but they're still there. I'm missing the history here, any reason they weren't removed yet?
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