linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] parisc: unbreak automounter support on 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:00:48 +0100
From:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Cc:	Helge Deller <deller@....de>, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
	autofs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: unbreak automounter support on 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace

James Bottomley wrote:
> [adding autofs list and maintainer for their perusal and ack, although
> this is an obvious fix to me
> 
> James]
> 
> On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 21:01 +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> > Similiar to other 64 bit Linux targets autofs_wqt_t needs to be of type
> > int
> > which has a size of 32 bits on 32- and 64-bit parisc kernels.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/auto_fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/auto_fs.h
> > index 77cdba9..d551754 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/auto_fs.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/auto_fs.h
> > @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
> > 
> >   */
> >  
> >  #if defined(__sparc__) || defined(__mips__) || defined(__x86_64__) \
> > 
> > - || defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__s390__)
> > + || defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__s390__) || defined(__hppa__)
> > 
> >  typedef unsigned int autofs_wqt_t;
> >  #else
> >  typedef unsigned long autofs_wqt_t;

Wouldn't it make sense to make it an unsigned int on all platforms? This 
wouldn't make any difference on 32 bit platforms and would prevent that to 
happen on the next 32-on-64 bit platform again.

Eike
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