Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:13:19 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] types.h: implement intptr_t and uintptr_t |
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 09:02:32AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 03:52:16AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I'd really like to get Jans type cleanups in XFS in for the next > > merge window. Given the lack of feedback on lkml in favor or > > against (u)intptr_t I'm tempted to add them to xfs_linux.h for now, > > and then do another push to propagate them to kernel-wide types later. > > > > Is that fine with everybody? > > I'd just push it into the XFS tree and into linux-next. It's a > relatively harmless set of changes, and if nobody cares enough about > it except us, just push it and see what happens when people start > noticing the conflicts it might cause....
Given that's it's been out on lkml for a while that sounds at least okay-ish. I just fear we might get dragged into a long discussion when then pull request is sent. Just adding the types locally and moving them to types.h in a single patch avoids that.
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