From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755416AbYABVmu (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:42:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752707AbYABVmm (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:42:42 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:42922 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751794AbYABVml (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:42:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:42:04 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jan Engelhardt cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , davem@davemloft.net, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use __u64 in aligned_u64's definition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > A cleanup. Or perhaps a precautionary change, should unsigned long > long ever become something that is not 64-bit. It was intended for > 2.6.25 actually. You don't take patches this early, do you? Yeah, no, I don't take patches early. I've considered setting up another branch for early patches, but decided that I'm (a) lazy and (b) better off encouraging people in the late -rc timeframe to just concentrate on the -rc's, not the next version. Linus