Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 5 authors, 2008-02-06

RE: [PATCH] e1000: Fix for 32 bits platforms with 64 bits resources

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2007-11-28 19:52:35
Also in: netdev

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 10:47 -0800, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
quoted
The side effect is that I removed the assignments to the netdev
fields mem_start, mem_end and base_addr, which are totally useless
for PCI devices.
also, concerning this, ifconfig shows the output of these variables, I
don't think we want to blatantly remove them, as it is actually removing
information that is, if not used, at least displayed to user space.
It's not the right place to have that information and there is no
room in the user space field to fit more than 32 bits on 32 bits
platforms so I'd rather remove it. It's really only for ISA drivers that
have user configurable addresses.

Ben.
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