From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755198Ab0JNTpf (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:45:35 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:55193 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754491Ab0JNTpe (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:45:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:45:29 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Eric Paris Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, agruen@suse.de, jengelh@medozas.de, davem@davemloft.net, andi@firstfloor.org Subject: Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h Message-ID: <20101014194529.GB17472@basil.fritz.box> References: <1287084892.3367.18.camel@dhcp231-212.rdu.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1287084892.3367.18.camel@dhcp231-212.rdu.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 03:34:52PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > A patch was posted a bit ago by agruen which made a change to > include/linux/types.h changing aligned_u64 to __aligned_u64 and exposing > this new type to userspace. I just ran into this problem (aligned_u64 not being exposed to user space), so yes I definitely welcome that change. > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128316627912457&w=2 > > Everyone seemed to agree the patch was a good idea and was correct. At > the moment this change only really affects network code, but I would > very much like to make use of this change in the notification tree. > Dave Miller did not apply the patch because "Someone has to first add > the types to linux/types.h, and that doesn't go through my tree." When in doubt send it to Andrew I guess. I see you already did. -Andi