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Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:29:38 -0700
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On 09/02/2011 09:44 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to support something similar to  __SNATIVE_LONG_TYPE
> and  __UNATIVE_LONG_TYPE for kernel header files.
> 

Again, what is the definition you're looking for?  We have __u64 and
__s64, but the question is what alignment those types should be using,
given that we're presumably stuck with using compat_ioctl for ioctl...

	-hpa