Re: [PATCH 02/20] regmap: Remove regmap_bulk_write 64bit support

From: Markus Pargmann
Date: Wed Aug 12 2015 - 06:44:47 EST


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:25:50AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:12:27PM +0200, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> > Regmap does not support 64bit. The ival that is used to write the 64bit
> > data to, is unsigned int and can't hold 64bit. _regmap_write also just
> > supports unsigend int.
>
> What makes you say that unsigned int can't hold 64 bit? An architecture
> can have 64 bit ints if it likes.

I wasn't aware that any 64 bit architecture actually has unsigned ints
that are 64 bit in size. So wouldn't at least on x86_64 this would lead
to a compiler warning as unsigned int is 4 byte and u64 8 bytes?

Best Regards,

Markus

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