From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:43:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:42:58 -0400 Received: from u-31-18.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.18.31]:63647 "EHLO dea.waldorf-gmbh.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:42:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:40:31 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: jes@trained-monkey.org Cc: olivier.lebaillif@ifrsys.com, alan@redhat.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] dz.c 64 bit locking issues Message-ID: <20010817164031.A6083@bacchus.dhis.org> In-Reply-To: <200108160426.f7G4QaA19434@savage.trained-monkey.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108160426.f7G4QaA19434@savage.trained-monkey.org>; from jes@trained-monkey.org on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:26:36AM -0400 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:26:36AM -0400, jes@trained-monkey.org wrote: > The dz.c driver has an instance where it does save_flags() to a 32 bit > type which isn't safe for 64 bit boxen. It's safe because a MIPS only driver. Ralf