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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	agruen@suse.de, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:22:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878w1zc1ba.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1010142342400.31442@obet.zrqbmnf.qr> (Jan Engelhardt's message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:50:34 +0200 (CEST)")

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> writes:

> I would be interested in knowing whether you - in whichever subsystems
> you happen to be active - would even need aligned_u64. Right now,
> the only users seem to be PPP and scsi_tgt besides Netfilter.

Using aligned_u64 is good practice to avoid problems with the 
32bit/64bit compat layer. I would recommend it to anyone 
adding a new user space interface passing a 64bit value.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-15  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-14 19:34 Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h Eric Paris
2010-10-14 19:45 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-14 19:54 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-14 21:26   ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-14 21:35     ` Eric Paris
2010-10-14 21:37     ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-14 21:46       ` Randy Dunlap
2010-10-14 21:50       ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-14 22:01         ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-14 22:13         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-14 23:05           ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-15  3:03           ` Abbrevieated SHA1s (Was: Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h) Stephen Rothwell
2010-10-15  8:22         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-10-15  9:01           ` Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h Andrew Morton
2010-10-15 10:15             ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-10-15 14:26               ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-15 14:44                 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-10-15 15:24                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-15 10:13           ` Jan Engelhardt

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