Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:22:49 +0200 |
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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> writes:
> I would be interested in knowing whether you - in whichever subsystems > you happen to be active - would even need aligned_u64. Right now, > the only users seem to be PPP and scsi_tgt besides Netfilter.
Using aligned_u64 is good practice to avoid problems with the 32bit/64bit compat layer. I would recommend it to anyone adding a new user space interface passing a 64bit value.
-Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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