From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, agruen@suse.de,
jengelh@medozas.de, davem@davemloft.net, andi@firstfloor.org
Subject: Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:45:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101014194529.GB17472@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287084892.3367.18.camel@dhcp231-212.rdu.redhat.com>
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 03:34:52PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> A patch was posted a bit ago by agruen which made a change to
> include/linux/types.h changing aligned_u64 to __aligned_u64 and exposing
> this new type to userspace.
I just ran into this problem (aligned_u64 not being exposed to user space),
so yes I definitely welcome that change.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128316627912457&w=2
>
> Everyone seemed to agree the patch was a good idea and was correct. At
> the moment this change only really affects network code, but I would
> very much like to make use of this change in the notification tree.
> Dave Miller did not apply the patch because "Someone has to first add
> the types to linux/types.h, and that doesn't go through my tree."
When in doubt send it to Andrew I guess. I see you already did.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-14 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-14 19:34 Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h Eric Paris
2010-10-14 19:45 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-10-14 19:54 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-14 21:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-14 21:35 ` Eric Paris
2010-10-14 21:37 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-14 21:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-10-14 21:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-14 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-14 22:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-14 23:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-15 3:03 ` Abbrevieated SHA1s (Was: Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h) Stephen Rothwell
2010-10-15 8:22 ` Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h Andi Kleen
2010-10-15 9:01 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-15 10:15 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-10-15 14:26 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-15 14:44 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-10-15 15:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-15 10:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
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