[PATCH] powerpc: Fix size of st_nlink on 64bit
Anton Blanchard
anton at samba.org
Sun Jun 3 13:48:36 EST 2012
Hi Stephen,
> > commit e57f93cc53b7 (powerpc: get rid of nlink_t uses, switch to
> > explicitly-sized type) changed the size of st_nlink on ppc64 from
> > a long to a short, resulting in boot failures.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
>
> Would this affect my (early user mode) boot problems reported
> yesterday;
>
> /init: 71: mknod: Permission denied
> /init: 88: mknod: Permission denied
> /init: 88: mknod: Permission denied
Very similar to the errors I was seeing so I think the patch will fix
it.
Anton
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