Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:46:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:46:13 -0400 Received: from to-velocet.redhat.com ([216.138.202.10]:7407 "EHLO touchme.toronto.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:46:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:50:45 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Neil Brown , Pavel Machek , Peter Chubb , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9 Message-ID: <20020903155045.J21268@redhat.com> References: <15717.52317.654149.636236@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> <20020827185833.B26573@redhat.com> <15732.34929.657481.777572@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from phillips@arcor.de on Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:42:56PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 851 Lines: 18 On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:42:56PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > and I expect it will be this time too. It's just a printk! Who cares if it > wastes a few bytes. It's even conceivable that if we use this idiom heavily > enough, some gcc boffin will take the time to optimize away the useless > conversions. The issue of casting was never successfully treated by any of the approaches that were presented, except by Neil's llsect() function. It's shorter than (long long)sect and has type safety, so let's just use it. -ben -- "You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier." - 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/