linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

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Message-ID: <4E9C94A1.7080209@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:48:33 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

On 10/17/2011 12:55 AM, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> 
> I introduced those macros to find all the places in the kernel operating
> on a cputime value. The additional debug patch defined cputime_t as a
> struct which contained a single u64. That way I got a compiler error
> for every place I missed.
> 

And was there a reason that that structure thingy didn't get merged?

	-hpa
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