Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755735AbYGVLf6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:35:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753714AbYGVLfs (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:35:48 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:55027 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752819AbYGVLfr (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:35:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the printk problem) From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Matthew Wilcox , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Peter Anvin , Linus Torvalds , "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20080722030506.206a2cc2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080625131101.GA6205@digi.com> <20080704104634.GA31634@digi.com> <20080704111540.ddffd241.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080704132716.f1e12554.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080704204252.GM14894@parisc-linux.org> <20080704150100.1f7b8a65.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080705020350.GN14894@parisc-linux.org> <20080722030506.206a2cc2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:35:30 +1000 Message-Id: <1216726530.11027.205.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 753 Lines: 22 > > This is (IMO) a desirable change and will prevent a heck of a lot of > goofing around, and will permit a lot of prior goofing around to > be removed. > > But I bet there are lots of instalces of printk("%l", some_u64) down in > arch code where the type of u64 _is_ known which will now spew warnings. Well, I'm about to call a big "warning fixing day" on the powerpc list, I saw a few today when building a couple of configs and that hurts my eyes so we may as well fold that in :-) Cheers, Ben. -- 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/