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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm3
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 02:02:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030711160214.GH7348@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030711082532.GA432@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>


> The v1 ioctl interface passes the dev in as a __kernel_dev_t, so
> unfortunately if you change the size of __kernel_dev_t you will have
> to rebuild the tools.
> 
> The v4 ioctl interface just uses a __u64 which I hope will be future
> proof.

This was the only thing that made the 32bit ioctls different to the 64bit 
ones on ppc64, so changing it to __u64 is a good thing.

Anton

      reply	other threads:[~2003-07-11 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-09  5:35 2.5.74-mm3 Andrew Morton
2003-07-09  9:05 ` 2.5.74-mm3 Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-09  9:18   ` 2.5.74-mm3 Andrew Morton
2003-07-09  9:25     ` 2.5.74-mm3 Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-09  9:38     ` 2.5.74-mm3 Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-09 11:23       ` 2.5.74-mm3 Jan De Luyck
2003-07-09 13:23       ` 2.5.74-mm3 Ramón Rey Vicente󮠒
2003-07-10  5:44     ` 2.5.74-mm3 - apm_save_cpus() Macro still bombs out Piet Delaney
2003-07-10  6:08       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-10  7:10         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-10  7:18           ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-10  7:59             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-10  4:09               ` hptraid.o -- No array found? Seth Chromick
2003-07-10 12:20                 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-10  8:15             ` 2.5.74-mm3 - module-init-tools: necessary to replace root copies? Piet Delaney
2003-07-10  8:15             ` Piet Delaney
2003-07-10  8:23               ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-10  9:22       ` 2.5.74-mm3 - apm_save_cpus() Macro still bombs out Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-10  9:27         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-10  9:42           ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-10  9:48             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-10  9:59               ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-10 10:30                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-10 10:49                   ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-11 14:56                   ` Matt Mackall
2003-07-09  9:24 ` 2.5.74-mm3 Matt Mackall
2003-07-09  9:29   ` 2.5.74-mm3 William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-10 18:21 ` 2.5.74-mm3 Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-11  8:25   ` 2.5.74-mm3 Joe Thornber
2003-07-11 16:02     ` Anton Blanchard [this message]

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