Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:52:04 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64 |
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Jamie Lokier wrote: >> >>The main advantage with making it a struct is that it keep people from >>doing stupid stuff like (int)dev where dev is a kdev_t... There is >>all kinds of shit like that in the kernel... > > If you want that good quality 64-bit code, try making it a struct > containing just a u64 :) >
Perhaps:
#if BITS_PER_LONG == 64 typedef struct { u64 val; } kdev_t;
/* Macros for major minor mkdev */ #else typedef struct { u32 major, minor; } kdev_t;
/* Macros... */ #endif
-hpa
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