[PATCH] powerpc: Fix size of st_nlink on 64bit

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi Anton,

On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 13:48:36 +1000 Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org> wrote:
>
> > > 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.

Great.  One less thing to bisect tomorrow :-)

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
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