[PATCH] PM / OPP: fix debugfs files for 64-bit
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Oct 7 05:57:35 PDT 2015
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 04:51:49PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 07-10-15, 12:07, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Why would you be wanting to create a "unsigned long" as an api anyway?
> > Just force it to be u64 all the time, can't you do that?
>
> Okay, so the variable in question (lets say frequency) is an 'unsigned
> long' and that's how all the APIs of clock framework expect/define
> it.
>
> And you are probably saying that we do this:
>
> unsigned long freq;
>
> debugfs_create_u64((u64 *)&freq);
>
> Right? Or are you asking to update clock APIs to be converted to u64?
Yes, they should be u64 as I doubt you want to debug problems that you
have in the driver where it works on a 64bit system but doesn't on a
32bit one.
thanks,
greg k-h
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