Re: [PATCH 1/2] pci: Fix bus resource assignment on 32 bits with 64b resources

From: Stefan Roese
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 05:19:35 EST


On Monday 10 December 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The current pci_assign_unassigned_resources() code doesn't work properly
> on 32 bits platforms with 64 bits resources. The main reason is the use
> of unsigned long in various places instead of resource_size_t.
>
> This fixes it, along with some tricks to avoid casting to 64 bits on
> platforms that don't need it in every printk around.
>
> This is a pre-requisite for making powerpc use the generic code instead of
> its own half-useful implementation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Checking Linus's latest git repository, it seems this patch (and the 2nd from
this series) hasn't been applied till now. This is just a reminder, that it
gets in in this merge-window.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan
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