From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jan Glauber <glauber@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:33:09 +0000
Subject: Re: __kernel_ino_t == 32bit
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Hi Bastian,

On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 16:14 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> Is there a reason why both 32 and 64Bit kernel have __kernel_ino_t 32bit
> wide? Any other arches have it matching the word size.

I don't think there is a reason and my machine does not complain if I
change it the 64Bit __kernel_ino_t to "unsigned long". But what about
the comment in the header file that the types are used by userspace?
Can we easily change that without breaking things?

Jan

> Bastian
>