linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix irq flags in mac80211 code

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Message-Id: <1209711056.5503.0.camel@localhost>
Date:	Fri, 02 May 2008 08:50:56 +0200
From:	Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@....de>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix irq flags in mac80211 code

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 18:48 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> A file in the net/mac80211 directory uses "int" for flags. This can
> cause hard to find bugs on some architectures. This patch converts the
> flags to use "long" instead.
> 
> This bug was discovered by doing an allyesconfig make on the -rt kernel
> where checks are done to ensure all flags are of size sizeof(long).

Good catch, thanks.

Mattias

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