From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: davem@redhat.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, hadi@cyberus.ca,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow setting mtu and txqlen via RTM_SETLINK and provide txqlen via RTM_GETLINK
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:04:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040824120442.GA21296@postel.suug.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BzYMJ-000208-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
* Herbert Xu <E1BzYMJ-000208-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au> 2004-08-24 20:16
> Please think about the meaning of the value. Is anyone going to have a queue
> bigger than 2^32?
>
> And if the answer is yes, then please use u64.
Can you please explain the actual reason for using a fixed width
type when all existing numeric attributes use arch depedent types?
I agree with you, if it happens to be the reason, that it is easier for a
userspace application to use fixed width types but we should change
it for all attributes if the decision is made for this one.
I have more patches in my queue which would throw up the same question
again. Therefore I'd like to see it discussed now and a decision to be
made whether to use fixed width types or not.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-24 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-23 20:51 [PATCH] allow setting mtu and txqlen via RTM_SETLINK and provide txqlen via RTM_GETLINK Thomas Graf
2004-08-24 2:26 ` Herbert Xu
2004-08-24 9:49 ` Thomas Graf
2004-08-24 10:16 ` Herbert Xu
2004-08-24 12:04 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2004-08-24 17:32 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-24 18:15 ` Thomas Graf
2004-08-24 20:47 ` [RFC/PATCH] Convert architecture dependent rtnetlink attribute to fixed sized ones Thomas Graf
2004-08-24 22:44 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-24 16:25 ` [PATCH] allow setting mtu and txqlen via RTM_SETLINK and provide txqlen via RTM_GETLINK Thomas Graf
2004-08-24 17:32 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-24 18:08 ` Thomas Graf
2004-08-25 0:34 ` David S. Miller
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