Re: [PATCH RESEND] asm/types.h: Remove include/asm-generic/int-l64.h

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Nov 19 2013 - 07:36:23 EST


On Tuesday 19 November 2013, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Now all 64-bit architectures have been converted to int-ll64.h, we can
> remove int-l64.h in kernelspace.
>
> For backwards compatibility, alpha, ia64, mips64, and powerpc64 still use
> int-l64.h in userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks for following up with this.

> ---
> This is the (reworked for UAPI) non-documentation part of more than two
> year old "asm/types.h: All architectures use int-ll64.h in kernelspace"
> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/13/104)
>
> Since <asm/types.h> (from include/uapi/asm-generic/types.h) is used for
> both kernel and user space, include/asm-generic/int-ll64.h cannot just
> become include/asm-generic/types.h, as Arnd suggested.

I'm pretty sure you are right with this, but I don't remember at all
what I suggested and don't understand what the problem (if any) is.
Can you remind me?

Arnd
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