From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:29:21 +0000 Subject: Re: IA64 ino_t incorrectly sized? 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 On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:54:53PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:25:04AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote: > > I'd appreciate any suggestions about a cleaner way to do the > > common types.h and nfsd/syscall.h header changes. > > First question: What about other LP64 arches besides IA64. IMHO > having differen't ino_t on different LP64 arches is a rather bad idea. All architectures typedef __kernel_ino_t to unsigned long except alpha, ia64 and s390x. I guess ia64 just copied the wrong architecture at the beginning. > AQnd if we go the ino_t is unsigned long route for all 64bit arches > the ifdefs would also magically disappear.. Sounds like a good plan. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk