Re: [PATCH] Use resource_size_t for serial port IO addresses

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:08:37 -0500
Josh Boyer [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:06 +0100, Russell King wrote:

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This is something we should do, but I have recollections of Russell
identifying problems with this patch, or at least an earlier version of it?

Basically, there's two patches.  This one (let's call this patch A)
and another to prevent users being surprised (let's call that patch B).

I didn't have any real objections to patch A, provided something like
patch B was merged.  I did have objections against patch B, and I was
intermittently working on a revised solution.

However, for whatever reason [*], during the last merge window patch B
got merged and patch A got dropped, and as a result I've now given up
with my revised solution, and TBH, I no longer care.

Patch B in this case was commit abb4a2390.  Since that has already been
merged, can we please merge this patch into 2.6.23?  I'd really like to
avoid 44x not working in yet another kernel, so if this patch can't be
merged I'll have to come up with some alternate solution soon.

I still have a large pile of not-completely-obviously-ready patches to go
through, of which this is one.

There _were_ issues with this patch when it first turned up, but I failed
to record what they were.

Oh well, here's hoping it got fixed.