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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:02:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mostly merge types.h
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Chris Snook wrote:
> From: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
> 
> Most of types_32.h and types_64.h are the same.  Merge the common definitions
> into types.h, keeping the differences in their own files.  Also #error if
> types_{32,64}.h is included directly.  Tested with allmodconfig on x86_64.

Sorry, your patch is late:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9d256ff51c174d8b157d99db038a1045f37a17c8

And we really want to eliminate the _32/64 variants completely when
ever it is possible.

Thanks,

	tglx