From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN: change type of hfc_jiffies
 to ulong
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:48:58 +0100
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Hannes Eder wrote:
> Patch suggested by Jiri Slaby.

Well, at least some log needed.

jiffies are ulong, make sure we fit in jiffies store variable on archs with
bits per long > 32.

> Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
> ---
> 
> This patch is based on:
>     drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN: fix sparse warnings: make symbols static
> 
>  drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c b/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c
> index 2bb85c4..c7a855c 100644
> --- a/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c
> +++ b/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static int HFC_cnt;
>  static uint debug;
>  static uint poll, tics;
>  static struct timer_list hfc_tl;
> -static u32 hfc_jiffies;
> +static ulong hfc_jiffies;

Ok, unsigned long would be nicer. I though it would be implicit when writing
about ulong, but I see not in this uint-et-al context...