Re: [PATCH] statfs64 no longer missing

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:41:52 -0700 (PDT)


From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:31:29 +0200

> Wasn't Dave Miller just saying that passing "long" between user-space
> and the kernel is just a bad idea? Should we use "__u32" and "__u64"
> here instead?

This is architecture specific, where it is ok.

Well, it would be nice if we could put this into
asm-generic/statfs64.h and use portable types like
u64 et al.
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