Re: [PATCH v3] pcmcia: Convert io_req_t to use unsigned int

From: Dominik Brodowski
Date: Sun Oct 28 2007 - 09:51:12 EST


On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:17:20PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Convert the io_req_t members to unsigned int, to allow use on machines
> with more than 16 bits worth of IO ports (i.e. secondary busses on
> ppc64, etc).

Agreed, though I'd prefer if we got rid of kio_addr_t at the same time, and
convert its users to unsigned int as well -- as was pointed out earlier in
this thread, there's no known usage of IO ports larger than 32 bits.

Dominik
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