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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:38:57 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> CC: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, glommer@...il.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu, ehabkost@...hat.com, jeremy@...p.org, avi@...ranet.com, anthony@...emonkey.ws, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, ak@...e.de, chrisw@...s-sol.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, zach@...are.com, roland@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/21] [PATCH] change bitwise operations to get a void parameter. Rusty Russell wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 09:52:36 Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: >> This patch changes the bitwise operations in bitops.h to get >> a void pointers as a parameter. Before this patch, a lot of warnings >> can be seen. They're gone after it. > > No, this is a backwards step! These warnings are important for > non-arch-specific code: I fought hard to get them made into unsigned longs. > > But I'm happy for this to be applied as is, then I'll grab the git tree, > revert it and fix the warnings... > Yes, it's particularly nasty as it'll work fine on littleendian arches, and fail on bigendian arches... -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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