From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rob@landley.net
Cc: blauwirbel@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commit 085219f79cad broke Sparc-32 back in 2.6.28.
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:37:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100326.203745.04177541.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003262235.48736.rob@landley.net>
From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:35:47 -0500
> What exactly was the problem with just saying "unsigned short" when you mean
> an unsigned short? The way x86 does, and arm? (If these ever change, it
> breaks binary compatability. Not sure what these changes were trying to
> accomplish...)
I was trying to use well defined types that described the
usage and the origin of the definition.
I'm happy to use "unsigned short" or whatever works better.
Please send a patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-27 3:37 UTC|newest]
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2010-02-21 16:25 ` Commit 085219f79cad broke Sparc-32 back in 2.6.28 Rob Landley
2010-02-21 23:57 ` David Miller
2010-02-22 0:28 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2010-02-22 2:03 ` Rob Landley
2010-02-22 2:06 ` David Miller
2010-03-27 3:35 ` Rob Landley
2010-03-27 3:37 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-03-27 7:44 ` Rob Landley
2010-03-27 23:31 ` David Miller
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