Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263187AbTGKPtI (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:49:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263542AbTGKPtI (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:49:08 -0400 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:19080 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263187AbTGKPtF (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:49:05 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 02:02:14 +1000 From: Anton Blanchard To: Joe Thornber Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm3 Message-ID: <20030711160214.GH7348@krispykreme> References: <20030708223548.791247f5.akpm@osdl.org> <200307101821.h6AIL87u013299@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20030711082532.GA432@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030711082532.GA432@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 629 Lines: 17 > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/