Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752603Ab1F3RHU (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:07:20 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:50487 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752010Ab1F3RHP (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:07:15 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Randy Dunlap , Linux Kernel Development , Mikael Starvik , Jesper Nilsson , linux-cris-kernel@axis.com Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v3.0-rc5 (ssize_t ???) References: <20110629140630.5aefdda8.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20110630080119.GA20802@infradead.org> X-Yow: Boy, am I glad it's only 1971... Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:07:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Geert Uytterhoeven's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:43:47 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1125 Lines: 31 Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:01, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 08:59:28AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> Nope. Also only happens on cris, which has in >>> arch/cris/include/asm/posix_types.h: >>> >>> typedef long            __kernel_ssize_t; >>> >>> The "long" should be "int". >>> But probably it should just include instead. >> >> Changing a user visible type won't be very nice for those using it in >> C++ code. > > Are __kernel_* types exported to C++ userspace? Currently, no exported kernel header is using __kernel_ssize_t, so it may not be too late to change cris. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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/