Re: [PATCH v2] pcmcia: Convert io_req_t to use kio_addr_t

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Sep 22 2007 - 05:13:48 EST


On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:25:51AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > What about the formatting and field widths ?
> >
> > ulong would probably be a lot saner than kio_addr_t and yet more type
> > obfuscation.
>
> I don't think anyone uses ioports > 32bit. Certainly i386 takes an int
> port as parameter to {in,out}[bwl] (and it really only uses 16-bits).
> parisc uses 24 bits. I don't know what the various ppcs do, but pci
> bars can only be 32-bit for ioports. So my opinion is that ioports
> should be uint, not ulong.

The kernel seems to mostly use int, sometimes uint. I never quite got
why pcmcia had to have it's own strange typedef for them.

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