On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 09:00:27PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/20/2012 08:57 PM, Al Viro wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:18:01PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > >> The other types that are used as 64 bit on x32 are ino_t, nlink_t, > >> size_t, ssize_t, ptrdiff_t, and off_t. > > > > *Kernel-side* we should not give a damn about the userland nlink_t, period. > > Making it architecture-dependent had been a bad mistake that essentially > > made nlink_t useless for the kernel. That mistake had been fixed; please, > > do not bring it back. If some userland structure needs to include a field > > encoding nlink_t values, please use an explicitly-sized type when refering > > to it kernel-side. > > > > We should never use userland types per se. We can use __kernel_*_t > typedefs to make the kernel headers neater if it makes sense, but that > is often not even necessary. ... as long as we do not have typedef __kernel_foo_t foo_t in linux/types.h. -- 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
