Re: FW: Buslogic problem in 2.3.13

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:46:36 +0200

Dunlap, Randy wrote:
> I noticed in the 2.3.13-pre8 patches that some source files
> set up resource.start and resource.size, and then set
> resource.end = resource.start + resource.size;
> while other sources set
> resource.end = resource.start + resource.size - 1;
>
> Do some of these need to be corrected?
> Has someone already done it?
> Which is the correct value for resource.end?

The latter `resource.start + resource.size - 1' is the only one which
makes sense for resources at the end of their address space.

I assume `resource.end == 0xffffffff' is preferred to `resource.end == 0' :-)

-- Jamie

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