Subject: Re: [PATCH][v2] uio: Support 36-bit physical addresses on 32-bit systems

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:41:04 -0500

David Laight wrote:
> Since there is a discriminating field, could a union be used?
> At a guess the type of the address is constrained between
> produces and consumer??

I don't think we need to complicate the code by changing that variable into a
union.  I just a want a short comment added to the structure definition.  I
don't think that's asking a lot.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale