[PATCH] ibmveth: use consistent types

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Jan 7 05:47:53 EST 2009


From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:39:08 +1100

> These variables are only used with an interface that just dumps their
> values into registers to be passed to the hypervisor. The arguments
> to that interface are declared to be "unsigned long", so make these
> variables match.  The macros are only used with these variables, so make
> them match as well.
> 
> This code is currently only built for 64bit powerpc, so the transformation
> is really a noop.  If the interface was ever ported to 32 bit, it would
> almost certainly still use registers to pass the parameters and so
> "unsigned long" would still be appropriate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>

Also applied, thanks Stephen.



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