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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.18-rt7: fix more issues with 32-bit cycles_t
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* Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:

>    What was the destiny of that patch? I haven't seen it accepted, 
> haven't seen any comments... while this is not a mere warning fix. 
> What am I expected to do to get it accepted -- recast it against 
> 2.6.19-rt1?

i'd suggest to redo it - but please keep it simple and clean. Those 
dozens of casts to u64 are quite ugly. Why is cycles_t 32-bits on some 
of the arches to begin with?

	Ingo