Re: Modpost warning on Alchemy

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:33:25PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > Which happens to be the solution that is Linus-incompatible so I may
> > eventually have to change it ;-)
> 
>  Well, however we do it, the width of the physical address cookie used 
> with ioremap() should not be forced to be related to the width of the 
> virtual address space in any way.  I see no reason for us to be crippled 
> by limitations of some other architectures or, worse yet, by ones of some 
> code specific to some other platform.

It's the physical not virtual address and as you say yourself it's a cookie
so could potencially be some opaque value that isn't a physical address
at all.  And I wouldn't quite call it crippling that's certainly way
exagerated.

  Ralf