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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 23:08:47 -0700
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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitops cleanup 3/4
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Rusty Russell writes:
> Linus, please apply (no object code changes).
> 
> This changes everything arch specific PPC and i386 which should have
> been unsigned long (it doesn't *matter*, but bad habits get copied).
> 
> I left the devfs ones for Richard to submit separately, since they
> actually change the resulting code.

??? But you didn't leave the devfs ones alone: your patch changes a
devfs file:

> diff -urN -I \$.*\$ --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.7-pre1/include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h working-2.5.7-pre1-bitops/include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h
> --- linux-2.5.7-pre1/include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h	Fri Mar 15 15:37:39 2002
> +++ working-2.5.7-pre1-bitops/include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h	Sat Mar 16 13:54:53 2002
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
>      unsigned char sem_initialised;
>      unsigned int num_free;          /*  Num free in bits       */
>      unsigned int length;            /*  Array length in bytes  */
> -    __u32 *bits;
> +    unsigned long *bits;
>      struct semaphore semaphore;
>  };
>  

Anyway, I hope to have a devfs patch for 2.5.x ready before next
week. I've got some other changes in the works, as well as the bitops
changes, which I've already submitted for 2.4.x.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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