[PATCH] powerpc: merge types.h

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Thu Oct 20 08:44:07 EST 2005


Becky Bruce writes:

> This patch merges types.h into include/asm-powerpc.  The only real changes
> here are that umode_t has become short instead of int in the 64-bit case,
> which appears to match what most other platforms have done.

Ummm, isn't that an ABI change?  We don't want to do that unless
you're completely absolutely positively sure it couldn't possibly
cause any userspace breakage.

Regards,
Paul.



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