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From: Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: akpm@digeo.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] struct loop_info
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 16:24:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E9FFC92.DE4EBFB0@pp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: UTC200304172334.h3HNYgI06614.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> The second part of this patch adds a new struct loop_info2
> in <linux/loop.h> identical to the old struct but with
> unsigned long long instead of dev_t.
> Now kernel and userspace use the same struct, simplifying life.
> 
> Unfortunately for compatibility some translation between
> loop_info and loop_info2 is required.

Andries, if you are going to define new struct loop_info2, please change
lo_offset to 64 bits, and add new 64 bit lo_size element. Specifying offset
without size is little bit silly.

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-18 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-17 23:34 [PATCH] struct loop_info Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-18  0:22 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-18  5:05 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-18 13:24 ` Jari Ruusu [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-18  8:38 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-18  9:06 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-18  9:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-18  9:36 Andries.Brouwer

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