From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 18:17:02 +0200 > It would had been self-documenting if the type is changed to > phys_addr_t here. But I see that we do not use phys_addr_t much > (only one place) in sparc code today. I wouldn't be against such a cleanup. Code has been using "unsigned long" since the dawn of time, most of this stuff was written before phys_addr_t got added. And it was added to handle 32-bit machines with larger than 32-bit physical addresses. Technically sparc32 could theoretically need it, as it supports 36-bit physical address in the srmmu PTEs. But actually in practice it does not, as only I/O devices get mapped into ares using those high bits. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
