From: Greg Dietsche <gregory.dietsche@cuw.edu>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
mfuzzey@gmail.com, tom.leiming@gmail.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: fix warning in usbtest module
Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 23:02:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC76739.4000302@cuw.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110508225847.GA12750@suse.de>
On 05/08/2011 05:58 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> Sorry, but no, use 'unsigned long' please. In the kernel, it's
> guaranteed to hold the size of a pointer, that is one of the
> requirements of Linux.
>
> And as for C99, those types don't make any sense in the kernel, only in
> userspace. See Linus's posts on this a few years back on lkml if you
> want all of the details.
>
Thank-you for the explanation! I will go and look up Linus's post. Since
I'm new around here, please let me know if there are things I can do
better and/or differently.
Thanks,
Greg
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-09 4:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-08 3:27 [PATCH] usb: fix warning in usbtest module Greg Dietsche
2011-05-08 14:37 ` Alan Stern
2011-05-08 19:12 ` Greg Dietsche
2011-05-08 22:58 ` Greg KH
2011-05-09 3:51 ` [PATCH] usb: fix warning in usbtest module v2 Greg Dietsche
2011-05-09 4:02 ` Greg Dietsche [this message]
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