linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the printk problem)

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:35:30 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make u64 long long on all architectures (was: the
	printk problem)


> 
> This is (IMO) a desirable change and will prevent a heck of a lot of
> goofing around, and will permit a lot of prior goofing around to
> be removed.
> 
> But I bet there are lots of instalces of printk("%l", some_u64) down in
> arch code where the type of u64 _is_ known which will now spew warnings.

Well, I'm about to call a big "warning fixing day" on the powerpc list,
I saw a few today when building a couple of configs and that hurts my
eyes so we may as well fold that in :-)

Cheers,
Ben.
 

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