On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Pete Popov wrote: > > If not, why not use a data type that covers > > valid offsets only when passing addresses to bus access functions? > > The attribute and memory pcmcia addresses are just stored in these > variables, and then the upper pcmcia stack layer calls ioremap on these > addresses. Thus, you need the 36 bit I/O address patch, as well as the > tiny pcmcia patch. > > The pcmcia I/O address is ioremapped at the socket driver level. If that > was the case with the mem and attribute addresses, I wouldn't need this > 64 bit pcmcia patch. But since it's the upper pcmcia layer that ioremaps > these addresses, I need to store tham in 64 bit types. OK, but then phys_t should be used for ioaddr_t universally, shouldn't it? Any architecture can have the controller seen in a 64-bit memory space, after all. Maciej
