Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:01:34 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:22:49 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> 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. >
What "problems" does it prevent when used for this?
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