linux-kernel - Re: [GIT pull] timer updates for 2.6.27

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:01:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] timer updates for 2.6.27



On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Anyway, I'm not fixing it right now, since it's unclear which way to go, 
> but this need to be fixed _some_ way.

What the hell. The second type is always "unsigned long", and needs to be 
that since it's passed in as a pointer to "strict_strtoul()". So 
regardless of whether the cast to the first port should be removed or not, 
the second thing should be 0x%04lx.

		Linus
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