From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] Use strict kernel types to fix the world Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:30:07 -0800 Message-ID: <49A5E28F.5050209@zytor.com> References: <20090225235138.062045835@arndb.de> <49A5DC30.4080803@zytor.com> <200902260124.13641.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:36735 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752269AbZBZAdu (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:33:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200902260124.13641.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Kyle McMartin , Ingo Molnar , Jaswinder Singh Rajput , mingo@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> I split out netfilter, DRM and MTD, because of both >>> size and potentially controversial changes. >> I take it this supercedes your previous monolithic patch? > > Patch 1/7 supercedes my previous patch and is still as monolithic, > except for the separate 6/7 hunk. I only split the integer type > patches by subsystem, but I did these from scratch now. > > Patch 7/7 is a new one, based on your input from the last time > we discussed it. 6/7 we already had in -tip, apparently. I'm really of two minds regarding the patches that replace pure data types (2/7-5/7). Part of me thinks it would be better to do this via a script in make headers_install, but another part of me thinks that that is a recipe for missing includes. However, if subsystem maintainers are sharing headers with other platforms, it's probably the only sane road to go. -hpa