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SubjectRe: CONFIG_64_BIT
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:44:36 +0100
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:35:11PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > What do people think of CONFIG_64_BIT? It saves us from using
> > > !(IA64 || MIPS64 || PARISC64 || S390X || SPARC64 || X86_64) or
> >
> > For Kconfigs it may make sense, but is there any Config rule that
> > checks for all 64bit archs (opposed to checking for specific archs)?
> > I cannot thinkg of any.
>
> ... that was what the patch added.

It added a symbol that means that, but are there any users for it?

Ok, I2O and ATM and WANPIPE maybe but I assume that both are getting fixed
Still all those are non 64bit safe, so it may be better to have an
CONFIG_32BIT_ONLY or similar.

-Andi

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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:44:36 +0100
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:35:11PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > What do people think of CONFIG_64_BIT? It saves us from using
> > > !(IA64 || MIPS64 || PARISC64 || S390X || SPARC64 || X86_64) or
> >
> > For Kconfigs it may make sense, but is there any Config rule that
> > checks for all 64bit archs (opposed to checking for specific archs)?
> > I cannot thinkg of any.
>
> ... that was what the patch added.

It added a symbol that means that, but are there any users for it?

Ok, I2O and ATM and WANPIPE maybe but I assume that both are getting fixed
Still all those are non 64bit safe, so it may be better to have an
CONFIG_32BIT_ONLY or similar.

-Andi

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