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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:33:58 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.417 devfs 64bit portablility issue
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   From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
   Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:12:59 +0000
   
   Isn't it about time we made the bitops take an unsigned long pointer
   argument, rather than a void pointer to catch errors like this?

No, I tried to do that once, but the casts become stupid
and ugly.
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