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SubjectRe: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:18:56AM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:55:29 GMT, Russell King said:
> > > The PCI updates change the prototype of a helper function for
> > > pci_bus_alloc_resource(), but don't touch the actual helper function
> > > in PCMCIA.
> >
> > That explains the warning messages that gcc was tossing, which I suspected was
> > involved...
> >
> > > This means that the PCI update is actually broken - if it's merged as
> > > is into Linus' tree, PCMCIA will break there as well.
> >
> > Is the patch made to PCI actually incorrect, or is the proper way to do this
> > to propagate the changes into the relevant PCMCIA code?
>
> PCI has been updated to accept 64-bit resources, but the PCMCIA code
> has been missed. So the correct fix is to propagate the changes where
> necessary into the PCMCIA code.

hmm, I missed that. That's the price of two screenfuls of fscking compile
warnings.

> The minimalist solution is to fix up the PCMCIA alignment functions.

Greg's dropping the 64-bit-resource patch for now.
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