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From: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale•com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Cc: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs•org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: merge types.h
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:41:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f2d7ce137c9ab4123647a0c9fedcffe@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17238.52279.428407.411558@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Gack!  While I doubt that should break anything, I can't promise 100% 
that it won't.  I'll resubmit with that wrapped  up in a nice shiny 
ifdef.

Thanks for the catch - I wouldn't want irate users picketing my house :)

Cheers,
B

On Oct 19, 2005, at 5:44 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Becky Bruce writes:
>
>> This patch merges types.h into include/asm-powerpc.  The only real 
>> changes
>> here are that umode_t has become short instead of int in the 64-bit 
>> case,
>> which appears to match what most other platforms have done.
>
> Ummm, isn't that an ABI change?  We don't want to do that unless
> you're completely absolutely positively sure it couldn't possibly
> cause any userspace breakage.
>
> Regards,
> Paul.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-19 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-19 16:55 [PATCH] powerpc: merge types.h Becky Bruce
2005-10-19 22:44 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-19 23:41   ` Becky Bruce [this message]

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