From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
"Cameron, Steve" <Steve.Cameron@hp.com>,
"Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <Mike.Miller@hp.com>,
Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>,
jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utilities: add helper functions for safe 64-bit integer operations as 32-bit halves
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:35:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070422123556.GA28850@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070422133823.4bd3eaed@the-village.bc.nu>
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 01:38:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > over-engineering. Call it sector_upper32() do it the simple way and stop
> > > > trying to solve a problem we don't have
> > >
> > > James said we have the same problem with dma_addr_t.
> >
> > Yes. It's in fact the far more common case and we have a bread of
> > macros dealing with the issue in various drivers.
>
> So we still only need it for unsigned 32/64bit values ?
Yes.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-22 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <6.0.0.20.2.20070418160231.043f23c8@172.19.0.2>
2007-04-19 15:09 ` [PATCH] cciss: Fix warnings during compilation under 32bit environment Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2007-04-19 15:18 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-19 16:12 ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2007-04-19 16:22 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-19 16:26 ` [PATCH] cciss: Fix warnings during compilation under 32bitenvironment Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2007-04-19 16:27 ` Cameron, Steve
2007-04-20 5:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-20 13:10 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-20 13:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-20 18:43 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-20 18:50 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-20 19:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-20 20:20 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-20 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-20 21:39 ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-04-21 0:55 ` [PATCH] utilities: add helper functions for safe 64-bit integer operations as 32-bit halves John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-04-21 10:08 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-21 13:06 ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-04-21 21:01 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-21 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-22 9:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-22 12:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-22 12:35 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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