Re: [PATCH 1/2] add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:50 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >     
> > > Are we sure resource_size_t is -never- used to represent memory ? I
> > > though it was on some platforms....
> > >       
> > On x86 it's optionally used to put memory in the resource tree, but if 
> > the memory is larger than can be held in resource_size_t it simply skips 
> > it.  Don't know about elsewhere.
> >     
>
> That sounds like a good enough reason to not separate the two concepts..

The resource_size_t situation is obscure.  I'd be happy to just remove 
its config, use my patch and typedef phys_addr_t resource_size_t.

   J

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