From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmveth: use consistent types Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:47:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090106.104753.91462944.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20081231140225.48b695ef.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20090106163908.2e6134f4.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, santil@us.ibm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org To: sfr@canb.auug.org.au Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36376 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751200AbZAFSrv (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:47:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090106163908.2e6134f4.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Rothwell Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:39:08 +1100 > These variables are only used with an interface that just dumps their > values into registers to be passed to the hypervisor. The arguments > to that interface are declared to be "unsigned long", so make these > variables match. The macros are only used with these variables, so make > them match as well. > > This code is currently only built for 64bit powerpc, so the transformation > is really a noop. If the interface was ever ported to 32 bit, it would > almost certainly still use registers to pass the parameters and so > "unsigned long" would still be appropriate. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Also applied, thanks Stephen.