Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 2 Apr 2002 23:08:47 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bitops cleanup 3/4 |
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Rusty Russell writes: > Linus, please apply (no object code changes). > > This changes everything arch specific PPC and i386 which should have > been unsigned long (it doesn't *matter*, but bad habits get copied). > > I left the devfs ones for Richard to submit separately, since they > actually change the resulting code.
??? But you didn't leave the devfs ones alone: your patch changes a devfs file:
> diff -urN -I \$.*\$ --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.7-pre1/include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h working-2.5.7-pre1-bitops/include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h > --- linux-2.5.7-pre1/include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h Fri Mar 15 15:37:39 2002 > +++ working-2.5.7-pre1-bitops/include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h Sat Mar 16 13:54:53 2002 > @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ > unsigned char sem_initialised; > unsigned int num_free; /* Num free in bits */ > unsigned int length; /* Array length in bytes */ > - __u32 *bits; > + unsigned long *bits; > struct semaphore semaphore; > }; >
Anyway, I hope to have a devfs patch for 2.5.x ready before next week. I've got some other changes in the works, as well as the bitops changes, which I've already submitted for 2.4.x.
Regards,
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