RE: [PATCH v3] staging: fsl-mc: use 32bits to support 64K size mc-portals

[Bharat Bhushan]

Hi Greg,

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: fsl-mc: use 32bits to support 64K size mc-
> portals
> 
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:49:50AM +0000, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 11/22/2017 09:48 AM, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> > > As per APIs each mc-portal is of 64K size while currently 16bits
> > > (type u16) is used to store size of mc-portal.
> > > In these cases upper bit of portal size gets truncated.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> >
> > Ok, so just to clarify this fixes the case where size is equal (or
> > maybe larger in the future) to 0x10000.
> 
> Is this something that can happen today?  Is this needed in 4.14 to fix a
> problem people are having and need to be backported to stable, or can it
> wait until 4.15?

We can wait for 4.15 and no need to backport.

Thanks
-Bharat

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h