From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
Cc: Serban Constantinescu <serban.constantinescu@arm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Dave Butcher <Dave.Butcher@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] staging: android: binder: replace explicit size types
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 23:00:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130406060010.GA11127@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP5Xgd=xT7jcjz4UJY=_V8ccGLJrr6LXpkQCiR8GQCZcDPEDQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 04:17:47PM -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Serban Constantinescu
> <serban.constantinescu@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Since the binder driver uses both uint32_t and unsigned int any further
> > kernel changes will be difficult to read. This patch fixes the inconsistent
> > types usage.
> >
>
> Would it make more sense to only change the types that need to be
> larger on a 64 bit system?
I agree. You are also changing the type from explicit to "unexplicit",
the exact opposite from what I would be expecting to see here. Why?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-06 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-04 12:32 [PATCH 0/8] Android Binder IPC Fixes Serban Constantinescu
2013-04-04 12:32 ` [PATCH 1/8] staging: android: binder: replace explicit size types Serban Constantinescu
2013-04-05 23:17 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2013-04-06 6:00 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-04-08 12:25 ` Serban Constantinescu
2013-04-08 15:20 ` Greg KH
2013-04-04 12:32 ` [PATCH 2/8] staging: android: binder: replace IOCTL types with user-exportable types Serban Constantinescu
2013-04-04 12:32 ` [PATCH 3/8] staging: android: binder: fix binder interface for 64bit compat layer Serban Constantinescu
2013-04-04 12:32 ` [PATCH 4/8] staging: android: binder: fix printk() format specifier Serban Constantinescu
2013-04-06 6:01 ` Greg KH
2013-04-04 12:32 ` [PATCH 5/8] staging: android: binder: fix BINDER_SET_MAX_THREADS declaration Serban Constantinescu
2013-04-04 12:32 ` [PATCH 6/8] staging: android: binder: fix BC_FREE_BUFFER ioctl declaration Serban Constantinescu
2013-04-04 12:32 ` [PATCH 7/8] staging: android: binder: fix alignment issues Serban Constantinescu
2013-04-04 12:32 ` [PATCH 8/8] staging: android: binder: replace types with portable ones Serban Constantinescu
2013-04-05 22:00 ` [PATCH 0/8] Android Binder IPC Fixes Greg KH
2013-04-05 23:38 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2013-04-08 13:12 ` Serban Constantinescu
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