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SubjectRe: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 03:34:52PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> A patch was posted a bit ago by agruen which made a change to
> include/linux/types.h changing aligned_u64 to __aligned_u64 and exposing
> this new type to userspace.

I just ran into this problem (aligned_u64 not being exposed to user space),
so yes I definitely welcome that change.


>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128316627912457&w=2
>
> Everyone seemed to agree the patch was a good idea and was correct. At
> the moment this change only really affects network code, but I would
> very much like to make use of this change in the notification tree.
> Dave Miller did not apply the patch because "Someone has to first add
> the types to linux/types.h, and that doesn't go through my tree."

When in doubt send it to Andrew I guess. I see you already did.

-Andi



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