linux-stable.git/include/linux/types.h, branch linux-2.6.24.y

fix abuses of ptrdiff_t

2007-10-29T14:41:33+00:00

Use of ptrdiff_t in places like

-                       if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, u_tmp->rx_buf, u_tmp->len))
+                       if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, (u8 __user *)
+                                               (ptrdiff_t) u_tmp->rx_buf,
+                                               u_tmp->len))

is wrong; for one thing, it's a bad C (it's what uintptr_t is for; in general
we are not even promised that ptrdiff_t is large enough to hold a pointer,
just enough to hold a difference between two pointers within the same object).
For another, it confuses the fsck out of sparse.

Use unsigned long or uintptr_t instead.  There are several places misusing
ptrdiff_t; fixed.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

define first set of BIT* macros

2007-10-19T18:53:42+00:00

define first set of BIT* macros

- move BITOP_MASK and BITOP_WORD from asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h to
  include/linux/bitops.h and rename it to BIT_MASK and BIT_WORD
- move BITS_TO_LONGS and BITS_PER_BYTE to bitops.h too and allow easily
  define another BITS_TO_something (e.g. in event.c) by BITS_TO_TYPE macro
Remaining (and common) BIT macro will be defined after all occurences and
conflicts will be sorted out in the patches.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Centralise definitions of sector_t and blkcnt_t

2006-12-05T03:41:15+00:00

CONFIG_LBD and CONFIG_LSF are spread into asm/types.h for no particularly
good reason.

Centralising the definition in linux/types.h means that arch maintainers
don't need to bother adding it, as well as fixing the problem with
x86-64 users being asked to make a decision that has absolutely no
effect.

The H8/300 porters seem particularly confused since I'm not aware of any
microcontrollers that need to support 2TB filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[NET]: Introduce types for checksums.

2006-12-03T05:23:00+00:00

New types - for 16bit checksums and "unfolded" 32bit variant.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETFILTER]: trivial annotations

2006-12-03T05:21:25+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] Document bi_sector and sector_t

2006-10-04T17:32:09+00:00

Signed-Off-By: Roger Gammans 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[PATCH] Generic boolean

2006-10-01T07:39:18+00:00

This patch defines:
* a generic boolean-type, named 'bool'
* aliases to 0 and 1, named 'false' and 'true'

Removing colliding definitions of 'bool', 'false' and 'true'.

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] 64bit Resource: finally enable 64bit resource sizes

2006-06-27T16:24:00+00:00

Introduce the Kconfig entry and actually switch to a 64bit value, if
wanted, for resource_size_t.

Based on a patch series originally from Vivek Goyal 

Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] 64bit resource: introduce resource_size_t for the start and end of struct resource

2006-06-27T16:23:59+00:00

But do not change it from what it currently is (unsigned long)

Based on a patch series originally from Vivek Goyal 

Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/

2006-04-26T11:56:16+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse