linux-kernel - Re: i386 and x86-64 bitops function prototypes differ

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Date:	Fri, 2 Feb 2007 08:12:04 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	eranian@....hp.com, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i386 and x86-64 bitops function prototypes differ

> 
> So I'd say that x86_64 is wrong, and should be changed to take ulong*.

I'm trying to remember why I used void * -- I think there was a reason,
but it's lost in the myst of time.

Anyways, I suspect changing it now would have quite some fallout on other
code, but hopefully limited to arch/x86_64/*. But fixing these up
will hopefully not be too hard. 

-Andi

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