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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IA64 ino_t incorrectly sized?
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:26:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106381981428905@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106378281914262@msgid-missing>

>>>>> On 17 Sep 2003 10:33:47 -0400, Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com> said:

>>>>> "Nathan" = Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> writes:
  Nathan> Does anyone know why the IA64 platform-specific ino_t
  Nathan> definition is an int and not a long?  Patch below fixes this
  Nathan> problem for me but I wonder if there will be side-effects I
  Nathan> haven't considered (i.e. was there a reason for making this
  Nathan> 32 bits originally?).  If not, could the IA64 maintainers
  Nathan> push this patch around to the official kernel trees for me?
  Nathan> (pretty please)

  Jes> Hi Nathan,

  Jes> I am actually surprised it's still a 32 bit int in the
  Jes> kernel. I deliberately used 64 bit types in glibc so it could
  Jes> be done right. Must have slipped on fixing the kernel for this
  Jes> one.

  Jes> David?

Extending ino_t to 64 bits came up last October [1].  AFAIK, nobody
bothered to investigate & send a patch, so things didn't change since
then.

	--david

[1] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/linux-ia64/0210/3952.html

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-17 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-17  7:10 IA64 ino_t incorrectly sized? Nathan Scott
2003-09-17 14:33 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-09-17 17:26 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2003-09-29  5:52 ` Nathan Scott
2003-10-08 23:51 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-09  1:25 ` Nathan Scott
2003-10-09  1:57 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-09  3:15 ` Nathan Scott
2003-10-09  3:53 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-09  4:55 ` Nathan Scott
2003-10-09 20:46 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-10  2:22 ` Nathan Scott
2003-10-15  1:25 ` Nathan Scott
2003-10-15  1:48 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-15  4:47 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-15  5:18 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-15  6:06 ` Nathan Scott
2003-10-15  6:16 ` Nathan Scott
2003-10-15  6:21 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-15  6:28 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-15  6:34 ` Nathan Scott
2003-10-15 12:42 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-15 12:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-15 13:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-15 13:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-15 16:32 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-15 16:59 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-15 17:40 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-15 23:40 ` Neil Brown
2003-10-16  1:20 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-16 22:47 ` Nathan Scott
2003-10-17  0:47 ` Neil Brown
2003-10-17  1:56 ` Nathan Scott
2003-10-21  3:37 ` Neil Brown

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