Re: [PATCH 16/16] 64bit Resource: finally enable 64bit resource sizes

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:20:06PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Greg KH wrote:
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Introduce the Kconfig entry and actually switch to a 64bit value, if
> > wanted, for resource_size_t.
> 
> > diff --git a/arch/m68k/Kconfig b/arch/m68k/Kconfig
> > index 805b81f..22dcaa5 100644
> > --- a/arch/m68k/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/m68k/Kconfig
> > @@ -368,6 +368,13 @@ config 060_WRITETHROUGH
> >  
> >  source "mm/Kconfig"
> >  
> > +config RESOURCES_32BIT
> > +	bool "32 bit Memory and IO resources (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> > +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> > +	help
> > +	  By default resources are 64 bit. This option allows memory and IO
> > +	  resources to be 32 bit to optimize code size.
> > +
> >  endmenu
> 
> Why is the default 64 bit? Because 32 bit became experimental?

That's a really good question.  Vivek, why did you change it to be this
way?  In thinking about it some more, this should be a 64bit option
instead.

thanks,

greg k-h
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