Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755481AbXFOMjd (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:39:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753340AbXFOMjY (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:39:24 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:44848 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753016AbXFOMjX (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:39:23 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:38:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dave Airlie , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton References: <200706150159.l5F1xNgM000459@hera.kernel.org> <200706151355.57464.ak@suse.de> <1181908836.25228.452.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1181908836.25228.452.camel@pmac.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706151438.51803.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 411 Lines: 12 > It's the _location_ which is wrong; As long as everybody using it sees the attribute packed it is not wrong at all. ABIs are just a convention, not a law. -Andi - 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/