netdev - Re: [PATCH] ibmveth: use consistent types

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Date:	Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:47:53 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sfr@...b.auug.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, santil@...ibm.com,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmveth: use consistent types

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:39:08 +1100

> These variables are only used with an interface that just dumps their
> values into registers to be passed to the hypervisor. The arguments
> to that interface are declared to be "unsigned long", so make these
> variables match.  The macros are only used with these variables, so make
> them match as well.
> 
> This code is currently only built for 64bit powerpc, so the transformation
> is really a noop.  If the interface was ever ported to 32 bit, it would
> almost certainly still use registers to pass the parameters and so
> "unsigned long" would still be appropriate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>

Also applied, thanks Stephen.
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