Re: [RFC][PATCH] Expanding the size of "start" and "end" field in"struct resource"

[Eric W. Biederman]

Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Warnings primarily, however I think some places have assumptions  about size
> that have to be looked at.

Ok.  So nothing too bad just a thorough audit.  Although any driver that
has a real problem with a 64bit type is already broken on every 64bit
arch.

And we do need the 64bit type so we can handle 64bit pci resources on
x86 and ppc32 at some point.

Eric
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