Am Samstag 28 April 2007 23:08 schrieb Thomas Gleixner:
> On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:03 +0200, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
> > Am Samstag 28 April 2007 22:24 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > > > > AFAIK we don't currently have any platform that runs binaries with
> > > > > different sizes of "int" but this is a) an unsigned value anyway, and b)
> > > > > should be a fixed type (eg u32)
> > > >
> > > > I reviewed the code once more and find it OK. There is only one legal
> > > > value for the parameter "count" of uio_read(), and that's sizeof(int).
> > >
> > > If you are a box with multiple supported binary types how big is an
> > > "int". We use explicit sizes to ensure that uio_read() will work when/if
> > > we get platforms which support binaries with differing ideas of the size
> > > of "int". Thus it should use s32 or s64 or similar.
> >
> > Here's a fix to that effect:
>
> Can you please add a matching paragraph to the documentation ?
>
Yes, I'll add a "How to write userspace code" section tomorrow. I'll send a
patch as soon as it's ready.
Hans
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