Re: Confusion in usr/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h

Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-21T11:37:26Z

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:24:22AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Helge Deller wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > >> On parisc, there is a major confusion in this area, at some point, all
> > >> checks for __LP64__ got replaced with CONFIG_64BIT there. While I have
> > >> not understood what the problem with __LP64__ was, the check for
> > >> CONFIG_64BIT on parisc user space looks very wrong.
> >
> > I think the parisc mess is my fault. I once replaced the __LP64__ by
> > CONFIG_64BIT and forgot that some files are exported to userspace.
> > I'll clean that up and send patches.
>
> I have a patch set that introduces a lot more asm-generic headers where
> I also need a generic way to check for this. The approach I chose
> here was to check "#if __BITS_PER_LONG == 64" for anything that is
> exported to user space. Maybe you can #define this in asm/types.h
> and use this check in the parisc headers as well.

Could we add a new symbol for this?
We know we are going to use this in several places so a simpler variant
would be more readable.

Something like:

#ifdef __64BIT
...
#endif

When we define __64BIT we would use the __BITS_PER_LONG == 64 check.

Sam