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Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 14:19:19 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lucho@ionkov.net, ericvh@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p
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On Thu, 1 May 2008 17:08:05 -0400 (EDT)
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> Some files in the net/9p directory uses "int" for flags. This can
> cause hard to find bugs on some architectures. This patch converts the
> flags to use "long" instead.

gargh.

> This bug was discovered by doing an allyesconfig make on the -rt kernel
> where checks are done to ensure all flags are of size sizeof(long).

I was about to suggest that we do something like that...

I wonder how messy it is.  I long ago lost the ability to follow the
convolutions in include/linux/spinlock*.h :(  gotta patch?