linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] asm/types.h: Remove include/asm-generic/int-l64.h

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Message-Id: <201311191335.40506.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:35:40 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] asm/types.h: Remove include/asm-generic/int-l64.h

On Tuesday 19 November 2013, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Now all 64-bit architectures have been converted to int-ll64.h, we can
> remove int-l64.h in kernelspace.
> 
> For backwards compatibility, alpha, ia64, mips64, and powerpc64 still use
> int-l64.h in userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Thanks for following up with this.

> ---
> This is the (reworked for UAPI) non-documentation part of more than two
> year old "asm/types.h: All architectures use int-ll64.h in kernelspace"
> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/13/104)
> 
> Since <asm/types.h> (from include/uapi/asm-generic/types.h) is used for
> both kernel and user space, include/asm-generic/int-ll64.h cannot just
> become include/asm-generic/types.h, as Arnd suggested.

I'm pretty sure you are right with this, but I don't remember at all
what I suggested and don't understand what the problem (if any) is.
Can you remind me?

	Arnd
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