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Re: [Committed] S/390: Change struct statfs[64] member types to unsigned
- From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:53:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Committed] S/390: Change struct statfs[64] member types to unsigned
- References: <20130423070427 dot GA8115 at bart> <m2ip3dmyk8 dot fsf at igel dot home> <51764957 dot 8050404 at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:41:59 +0200
Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 23/04/13 10:38, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> >
> >> Therefore change the type of the f_type member to unsigned int, so
> >> that we get zero extension instead sign extension when assignment to
> >> a long value happens.
> >
> > Is the kernel going to change as well?
>
> Yes. Heiko will send a patch.
The kernel patch is available on the features branch of the s390 linux tree:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git/log/?h=features
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Martin.
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