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Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree

From Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree
Date 2016-01-29 13:10 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> Background: new aio code is adding __get_user() calls referencing 64
>> bit quantities (__u64 and __s64).
>
> There's lots more architectures which do not support 64-bit get_user()
> _or_ __get_user(): avr32, blackfin, metag for example, and m68k which
> has this interesting thing "/* case 8: disabled because gcc-4.1 has a
> broken typeof \" in its *get_user() implementation.

And if you enable it again, you get lots of "warning: cast to pointer from
integer of different size", like you mentioned.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

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Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2016-01-29 12:40 +0100
  Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-01-29 13:10 +0100
    Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> - 2016-02-04 03:30 +0100
      Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> - 2016-02-04 14:50 +0100
        Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2016-02-04 15:00 +0100
          Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> - 2016-02-04 15:10 +0100
            Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2016-02-04 15:20 +0100
              Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2016-02-04 15:40 +0100
                Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> - 2016-02-04 17:10 +0100
                Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2016-02-04 17:20 +0100
                Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> - 2016-02-04 17:30 +0100
                Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> - 2016-02-04 17:50 +0100
                Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> - 2016-02-04 19:50 +0100
              Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> - 2016-02-04 15:40 +0100

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