From: olof@lixom•net (Olof Johansson)
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst•de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, linux-pcmcia@lists•infradead.org,
paulus@samba•org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo•de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: ppc64 needs 64-bit ioaddr_t
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:57:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070514225731.GA4191@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070513214608.GA26187@lst.de>
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?
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-14 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-12 14:31 [PATCH] pcmcia: ppc64 needs 64-bit ioaddr_t Olof Johansson
2007-05-13 21:22 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-13 21:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-14 22:57 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-05-15 5:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-14 22:08 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-14 22:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-14 22:59 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-15 4:33 ` [PATCH v2] pcmcia: ppc64 needs 32-bit ioaddr_t Olof Johansson
2007-05-15 7:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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