Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:52:46 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_64_BIT |
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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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> 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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