From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753565AbaATRwr (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:52:47 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48986 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753497AbaATRwm (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:52:42 -0500 Message-ID: <52DD6243.1000205@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:52:03 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: "H.J. Lu" , linux-arch , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Ralf Baechle , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Update kernel uabi header files for x32 References: <1388182464-28428-1-git-send-email-hjl.tools@gmail.com> <20131228163308.GA1638@infradead.org> <52DD6101.4010708@zytor.com> <20140120175033.GA11534@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20140120175033.GA11534@infradead.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/20/2014 09:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:46:41AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> This comment by Christoph was literally the only feedback on this >> patchset. The definition of __kernel_[u]long_t is "the size of 'long' >> for the native kernel for the ABI". H.J.'s patchset only affects x86 >> (specifically x86-64) since on all other platforms __kernel_[u]long_t is >> simply defined as long/unsigned long. > > Btw, sorry for the delay in getting back yo your question. How about > __abi_long_t or __kabi_long_t instead? > __kernel_* is the namespace that we reserve for uabi symbols/types in user space. Changing the prefix would break that contract. -hpa