Re: [PATCH] fix ppc ioremap prototype

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> But phys_addr_t in struct resource and being passed into ioremap is
> confusing.  Apparantly, it isn't a physical address, but a platform
> defined cookie which just happens to look like a physical address.
> 
> (or are we finally going to admit that it is a physical address?)

Umm, right, so the typedef name is also completly bogus, if we're
going to go that route it needs to be something likeb iocookie_t.

See why I want stuff like this on lkml?  It has implication far beyond
ppc..

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