On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:59:16 -0500, Michael Lorenz wrote:

> is there a good reason why OF handles, node numbers etc. are
> represented as int in our code? As far as I can tell using a signed  
> type here only causes trouble since at least node numbers may well  
> have the upper bit set.

Why would you want to sign-extend a phandle anyway? :)

I guess way back then when that code was written nobody cared to
provide openboot/ofw interface across all relevant platforms, so that
you can e.g. declare sa_node in sbus_attach_args as "phandle_t".


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