Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:58:48 +0100 | From | "" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] staging: fsl-mc: use 32bits to support 64K size mc-portals |
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:49:50AM +0000, Laurentiu Tudor wrote: > > > On 11/22/2017 09:48 AM, Bharat Bhushan wrote: > > As per APIs each mc-portal is of 64K size while currently > > 16bits (type u16) is used to store size of mc-portal. > > In these cases upper bit of portal size gets truncated. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@nxp.com> > > --- > > Ok, so just to clarify this fixes the case where size is equal (or maybe > larger in the future) to 0x10000.
Is this something that can happen today? Is this needed in 4.14 to fix a problem people are having and need to be backported to stable, or can it wait until 4.15?
thanks,
greg k-h
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