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, 29 Aug 2001 20:03:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:03:27 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:60553 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:03:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:03:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20010829.170315.28787631.davem@redhat.com> To: bcrl@redhat.com Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkgetsize64 ioctl From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) 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 From: Ben LaHaise Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:45:20 -0400 (EDT) The patch below reserves an ioctl for getting the size in blocks of a device as a long long instead of long as the old ioctl did. The patch for this to e2fsprogs sneaked in a bit too early. There is a conflict with the ia64 get/set sector ioctls, but I that's less common than e2fsprogs. Any problems with using "u64" or some other more strictly portable type? "long long" and other non-fixed sized types cause grief for many dual-API platforms. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com