On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:44:53 +0200 Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It's pretty confusing to sort out such issues in userspace, and it >> would be nice if it could be fixed to work without weird casting. > > Well, the easiest fix seem to be to convert the "int f_type" to an > "unsigned int f_type". That would be nice if that is possible, yeah. It would allow users to use long types without jumping through weird things nobody expects from magic constants. :) > We would still face problems if the magic values > won't fit into 32 bit though. Right, but I guess that will not happen. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html