Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH resend] asm/types.h: All architectures use int-ll64.h in kernelspace | Date | Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:25:59 +0200 |
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On Saturday 13 August 2011 21:53:43 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Now all 64-bit architectures have been converted to int-ll64.h, we can > deprecate int-l64.h in kernelspace: > - Add a check to prevent new architectures from using int-l64.h in > kernelspace, > - Update documentation, as the casts to (unsigned) long long are no longer > needed. > > For backwards compatibility, alpha, ia64, mips, and powerpc still use > int-l64.h in userspace. > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> > For the documentation parts: > Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
I believe that Al Viro is working on a patch to unify all umode_t definitions so that it becomes unsigned short everywhere. Once that is done, asm-generic/int-ll64.h can become asm-generic/types.h and all architectures can use that.
Arnd
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