Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 2008 14:19:19 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p |
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On Thu, 1 May 2008 17:08:05 -0400 (EDT) Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> Some files in the net/9p directory uses "int" for flags. This can > cause hard to find bugs on some architectures. This patch converts the > flags to use "long" instead.
gargh.
> This bug was discovered by doing an allyesconfig make on the -rt kernel > where checks are done to ensure all flags are of size sizeof(long).
I was about to suggest that we do something like that...
I wonder how messy it is. I long ago lost the ability to follow the convolutions in include/linux/spinlock*.h :( gotta patch?
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