Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:45:29 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 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
| |