Re: [PATCH] [MMC] Fix base address configuration in wbsd

From: Russell King
Date: Sun Aug 06 2006 - 17:02:58 EST


On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:57:35PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:22:23PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> >> There were some confusion about base I/O variables in the wbsd driver.
> >> Seems like things have been working on shear luck so far. The global 'io'
> >> variable (used when manually configuring the resources) was used instead of
> >> the local 'base' variable.
> >
> > Applied, thanks.
> >
> > Shouldn't "base" be something other than "int" (eg, unsigned long) ?
>
> unsigned short would probably be the right<tm> thing as the resource is
> 16 bits. I haven't seen it as big enough issue to warrant a patch.

Is that a safe assumption to make? Is this only ever going to appear/be
used on x86?

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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