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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:55:03 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, UV: integer wrap bug in uv_hub_ipi_value()
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To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, rja@americas.sgi.com

On 11/19/2012 08:28 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>
> I do feel a little embarrassed that I didn't use "unsigned long"
> consistently.  I just used ulong to make the line a bit shorter, but
> I could redo it with "unsigned long" if you want.
>

Yes, "ulong" is not idiomatic in the Linux kernel.

	-hpa


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