Re: Why is kmem_bufctl_t different across platforms?

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On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:55:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Kyle Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > While exploring the asm-*/types.h files, I discovered that the
> >  type "kmem_bufctl_t" is differently defined across each platform,
> >  sometimes as a short, and sometimes as an int.  The only file
> >  where it's used is mm/slab.c, and as far as I can tell, that file
> >  doesn't care at all, aside from preferring it to be a small-sized
> >  type.
> 
> I don't think there's any good reason for this.  -mm's
> slab-leak-detector.patch switches them all to unsigned long.

What about moving it to include/linux/types.h ?

cu
Adrian

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