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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: 64bit clean drivers was Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre1
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Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 12:56, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
>>Can you please shortly explain what will not be maintainable with my
>>proposal? 


> If you think you can do it all nicely with dep_ and not if then prove me
> wrong. I'd actually like to see a working clean implementation because I
> agree about the problem, I'm dubious that the cure right now is better
> than the disease


What I did in the past for alpha was go through source and add something 
like

	#if BITS_PER_LONG != 32
	#error this file is broken for 64-bits
	#endif


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