[PATCH] Use resource_size_t for serial port IO addresses

[Josh Boyer]

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

josh