From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:37:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Port of the posix timers to IA64 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Eric" = Eric Piel writes: Eric> However I still don't feel confortable with the port because I Eric> had to change the size of timer_t from int to long. I did so Eric> just because the posix timers functions are based on the longest Eric> integer available (using BITS_PER_LONG). But it's not so Eric> convenient because then the include files of the system also Eric> have to be updated (include/bits/types.h). In addition 2^24 ids Eric> available (when using 32 bits) are already a lot. Eric, I take it you are only talking about updating the ia64 code needing to be changed? If you want to change the API, then we should certainly care about compatibility. Cheers, Jes