Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:06:30 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] struct loop_info64 |
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:55:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But we really should have a __ptr64 type too. There's just no sane way to > tell gcc about it without requireing casts, which is inconvenient (which > means that right now it you just have to use __u64 for pointers if you > want to be able to share the structure across 32/64-bit architectures).
I think that's what Stephan and Rusty tried to do with the kernel_ulong_t typedef in include/linux/mod_devicetable.h.
Maybe that typedef could be changed into the __ptr64 type? Stephan?
thanks,
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