From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 04:23:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 04:23:09 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:8196 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 04:22:56 -0500 From: Russell King Message-Id: <200101100654.f0A6sjJ02453@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 To: mantel@suse.de (Hubert Mantel) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:54:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List) In-Reply-To: <20010110013755.D13955@suse.de> from "Hubert Mantel" at Jan 10, 2001 01:37:55 AM X-Location: london.england.earth.mulky-way.universe X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hubert Mantel writes: > is this part of 2.2.19pre7 really a good idea? Even in 2.4.0 the size > field is still a short. > #define NFS_MAXFHSIZE 64 > struct nfs_fh { > - unsigned short size; > + unsigned int size; > unsigned char data[NFS_MAXFHSIZE]; > }; This is an internal kernel data structure. Do you know of some program that breaks as a result of this? _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/