Re: [PATCH] statfs64 no longer missing

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 01:41:52 EST


   From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
   Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:31:29 +0200

> Wasn't Dave Miller just saying that passing "long" between user-space
> and the kernel is just a bad idea? Should we use "__u32" and "__u64"
> here instead?
   
   This is architecture specific, where it is ok.

Well, it would be nice if we could put this into
asm-generic/statfs64.h and use portable types like
u64 et al.
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