From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754210Ab0JOIW4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:22:56 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:37768 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753395Ab0JOIWz (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:22:55 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Andrew Morton , Eric Paris , 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 References: <1287084892.3367.18.camel@dhcp231-212.rdu.redhat.com> <20101014125458.9e51ac58.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20101014143723.ffea0d8c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:22:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Jan Engelhardt's message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:50:34 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: <878w1zc1ba.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt 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.