Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:02:49 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses |
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:50 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> >>> Are we sure resource_size_t is -never- used to represent memory ? I >>> though it was on some platforms.... >>> >> On x86 it's optionally used to put memory in the resource tree, but if >> the memory is larger than can be held in resource_size_t it simply skips >> it. Don't know about elsewhere. >> > > That sounds like a good enough reason to not separate the two concepts..
The resource_size_t situation is obscure. I'd be happy to just remove its config, use my patch and typedef phys_addr_t resource_size_t.
J
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