[PATCH] pci: Fix bus resource assignment on 32 bits with 64b resources

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:22:27PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 17:40 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > The current pci_assign_unassigned_resources() code doesn't work properly
> > on 32 bits platforms with 64 bits resources. The main reason is the use
> > of unsigned long in various places instead of resource_size_t.
> > 
> > This fixes it, along with some tricks to avoid casting to 64 bits on
> > platforms that don't need it in every printk around.
> > 
> > This is a pre-requisite for making powerpc use the generic code instead of
> > its own half-useful implementation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> > ---
> > 
> > This version fixes some stupid warnings when using 32 bits resources
> 
>  ... and has warnings on 64 bits platforms... GRRRR
> 
> This whole issue of printk vs. resource_size_t is a terrible mess :-(
> 
> Part of the problem is that resource_size_t can be either u32 or u64..
> 
> that is  it can be either unsigned int, unsigned long or unsigned long
> long... and we have no way to reliably printk that.

We do this already just fine.  Take a look in the kernel, I think we
just always cast it to long long to be uniform.

> Any clever idea before I start pushing filthy macros up linux/types.h ?

I don't think any macros are needed.

thanks,

greg k-h