From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Arch Mailing List <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/24] Unify integer type definitions, and add fixed type constructor macros
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:44:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4814BB95.8090808@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804251015.32157.arnd@arndb.de>
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 25 April 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> This patchset unifies the integer definitions across all the
>> <asm-*/types.h> files, replacing them with two asm-generic files, one
>> for the LL64 model (all 32-bit architectures plus x86-64) and one for
>> the L64 model (all other 64-bit architectures.)
>
> I started hacking on a similar patch just yesterday, but with a slightly
> different goal. My intention was to move the headers in a direction
> where a new architecture (microblaze being the next one) would no longer
> have to care about ABI defining headers at all, but just use the defaults
> from a single #include line.
>
> I could deal with x86 by leaving the current asm-x86/types.h in place,
> and change all the others so they can use the common one. The only
> difference here would be umode_t and dma_addr_t, which are irregularly
> defined on a few architectures, but we can assume reasonable defaults, as in
>
It seems reasonable to implement what you are proposing on top of my
changes, IMO.
-hpa
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2008-04-24 23:05 [PATCH 00/24] Unify integer type definitions, and add fixed type constructor macros H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <1209078352-7593-2-git-send-email-hpa@zytor.com>
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 01/24] types: create <asm-generic/int-*.h> H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 02/24] alpha: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the alpha architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 03/24] arm: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the arm architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 04/24] avr32: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the avr32 architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 05/24] blackfin: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the blackfin architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 06/24] cris: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the cris architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 07/24] frv: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the frv architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 08/24] h8300: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the h8300 architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 09/24] ia64: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the ia64 architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 10/24] m32r: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the m32r architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 11/24] m68k: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the m68k architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 12/24] mips: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the mips architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 13/24] mn10300: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the mn10300 architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 14/24] parisc: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the parisc architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 15/24] powerpc: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the powerpc architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 16/24] s390: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the s390 architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 17/24] sh: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the sh architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 18/24] sparc: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the sparc architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 19/24] sparc64: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the sparc64 architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 20/24] v850: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the v850 architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 21/24] x86: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the x86 architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 22/24] xtensa: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the xtensa architecture H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 23/24] types: add C99-style constructors to <asm-generic/int-*.h> H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 23:05 ` [PATCH 24/24] Use U64_C() instead of casts in kernel/time.c H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 0:44 ` [PATCH 19/24] sparc64: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the sparc64 architecture David Miller
2008-04-25 0:44 ` [PATCH 18/24] sparc: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the sparc architecture David Miller
2008-04-25 1:37 ` [PATCH 09/24] ia64: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the ia64 architecture Luck, Tony
2008-04-25 3:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 4:10 ` [PATCH 24/24] Use U64_C() instead of casts in kernel/time.c H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 4:44 ` Luck, Tony
2008-04-25 0:14 ` [PATCH 03/24] arm: types: use <asm-generic/int-*.h> for the arm architecture Lennert Buytenhek
2008-04-25 18:27 ` [PATCH 01/24] types: create <asm-generic/int-*.h> Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-25 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 18:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-25 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 19:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-25 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 19:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-28 13:55 ` David Howells
2008-04-25 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 19:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 19:49 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-04-25 20:30 ` David Miller
2008-04-25 0:15 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2008-04-25 7:17 ` [PATCH 00/24] Unify integer type definitions, and add fixed type constructor macros Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-04-25 7:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-04-25 8:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-27 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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