From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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 Message-ID: <1665974.2LGtkbyJmJ@wuerfel> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven , Al Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Randy Dunlap , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Development List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org 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 > For the documentation parts: > Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 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