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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: Get USE_STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS working again
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:09:56PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:04:47PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > The typesafe version of the powerpc pagetable handling (with
> > USE_STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS defined) has bitrotted again.  This patch
> > makes a bunch of small fixes to get it building again.
> 
> It might be a better idea to mark these types __bitwise and use sparse
> to do the stricter checking..

Uh.. I don't think that would do quite the same thing.  In particular
it wouldn't catch assignments between (say) pmd_t and pte_t.

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