On Saturday 13 August 2011 21:53:43 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Now all 64-bit architectures have been converted to int-ll64.h, we can > deprecate int-l64.h in kernelspace: > - Add a check to prevent new architectures from using int-l64.h in > kernelspace, > - Update documentation, as the casts to (unsigned) long long are no longer > needed. > > For backwards compatibility, alpha, ia64, mips, and powerpc still use > int-l64.h in userspace. > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > For the documentation parts: > Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> I believe that Al Viro is working on a patch to unify all umode_t definitions so that it becomes unsigned short everywhere. Once that is done, asm-generic/int-ll64.h can become asm-generic/types.h and all architectures can use that. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
