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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:13:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, agruen@...e.de, davem@...emloft.net Subject: Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h On Friday 2010-10-15 10:22, Andi Kleen wrote: >Jan Engelhardt writes: > >> I would be interested in knowing whether you - in whichever subsystems >> you happen to be active - would even need aligned_u64. Right now, >> the only users seem to be PPP and scsi_tgt besides Netfilter. > >Using aligned_u64 is good practice to avoid problems with the >32bit/64bit compat layer. I would recommend it to anyone >adding a new user space interface passing a 64bit value. Well, new interfaces in networking are using netlink, which has its own unlucky ideas of alignment. -- 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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