Re: [patch] net/input: fix net/rfkill/rfkill-input.c bug on 64-bit systems

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 7/12/07, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [patch] net/input: fix net/rfkill/rfkill-input.c bug on 64-bit systems
>
> this recent commit:
>
>  commit cf4328cd949c2086091c62c5685f1580fe9b55e4
>  Author: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@xxxxxxxxx>
>  Date:   Mon May 7 00:34:20 2007 -0700
>
>     [NET]: rfkill: add support for input key to control wireless radio
>
> added this 64-bit bug:
>
>        ....
>        unsigned int flags;
>
>        spin_lock_irqsave(&task->lock, flags);
>        ....
>
> irq 'flags' must be unsigned long, not unsigned int. The -rt tree has
> strict checks about this on 64-bit so this triggered a build failure.

Yep, my fault.

> For -stable too i suspect.

I don't think anyone uses rfkill in mainline yet. People were asking
to add it so that they can develop against it but I guess I should
have waited for the real user before pushing rfkill to David...
ANyway, I see it is being used in wireless-dev so it is not completely
useless ;)

--
Dmitry
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